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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.