Associations to the word «Concordance»

Wiktionary

CONCORDANCE, noun. Agreement; accordance; consonance
CONCORDANCE, noun. (grammar) (obsolete) concord; agreement.
CONCORDANCE, noun. 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.
CONCORDANCE, noun. (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

Dictionary definition

CONCORDANCE, noun. A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole.
CONCORDANCE, noun. Agreement of opinions.
CONCORDANCE, noun. An index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky