concordance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
  2. Agreement of words with one another; concord.
  3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
  4. A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
  5. The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
verb
  1. To create a concordance from (a corpus).

Pronunciation

/kənˈkɔːdəns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-concordance.wav /kənˈkɔɹdəns/

Word forms

concordance concordances concordaunce concordancing concordanced

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Late Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Late Latin cor Late Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

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