concordance

UK/kənˈkɔːdəns/US/kənˈkɔɹdəns/

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,984 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: concordances

A concordance is an index of every word used in a work. A Bible concordance, compile a concordance, consult the concordance.

Before computers, making one took a lifetime, and the great Bible concordances were the work of decades by hand. In statistics the word means agreement between two measures, which is a separate use.

Definitions of concordance

1nounconcordanceAn index of every word used in a work.C2
“Using a concordance of Shakespeare, she found every play in which the word 'dagger' appears.”

concordance is an index.

Where it comes from

Latin concordantia comes from concordare, to agree.

Latin
concordans
Old French
concordance
English, today
concordance

From Old French concordance, from Latin concordans. From Old French concordance, from Latin concordantia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Libraries & Museums

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concordance in the wild

A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context.
Concordance (publishing)
Today, the ability to combine the result of queries concerning multiple terms (such as searching for words near other words) has reduced interest in concordance publishing.
Concordance (publishing)
Concordance can be measured with concordance rates, reflecting the odds of one person having the trait if the other does.
Concordance (genetics)
In research, concordance is often discussed in the context of both members of a pair of twins.
Concordance (genetics)
A Vedic Word Concordance is a multi-volume concordance of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts.
A Vedic Word Concordance

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