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Concordance

Definition: Concordance

Concordance

Noun

1. A harmonious state of things and their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole.

2. Agreement of opinions.

3. An index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "concordance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)

Etymology: Concordance \Con*cord"ance\, noun. [French expression, from Late Latin expression concordantia.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Concordance

DomainDefinition

Information

An alphabetical index of words in a document, each word present in a text being an index entry. Source: European Union. (references)

Statistics

In Italian usage, a particular form of relationship(connessione)between quantitative variables, or qualitative variables when they have comparable modalities. If the variables are such that positive values of one are associated with negative values of another there is said to be discordance(discordanza), that is to say, concordance attempts to represent the sign as well as the intensity of the relationship. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Concordance

Synonyms: accord (n), concord (n), harmony (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Concordance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agreement

Noun: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.

Assent

Noun: assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.

List

Table, chart, database; index, inverted file, word list, concordance.

Word

Dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance; thesaurus; gradus, delectus.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Concordance

English words defined with "concordance": coefficient of concordance, Concord, Concordist. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Concordance" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (accord, accordance, agreement, concordance, concurrence, responsibility).

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Commercial Usage: Concordance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: With Strong's Concordance Numbers Above Each Word (reference)

  • NIV Compact Concordance (reference)

  • Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, The (reference)

  • The Concise Concordance to the New Revised Standard Version (reference)

  • The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible Expanded Edition (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Concordance

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Argentina

Be sure the Spanish and English versions of any document are carefully reviewed for concordance, so that both parties fully understand the content. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Concordance

"Concordance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Concordance" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.24%8037,112
Noun (proper)4.76%4175,879
                    Total100.00%84N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Concordance

Expression using "concordance": coefficient of concordance. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Concordance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bible concordance

734

concordance greek

6

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349

concordance greek hebrew

6

strongs concordance

279

catholic bible concordance

6

online bible concordance

97

king james concordance

6

concordance online

58

concordance kjv

6

strongs exhaustive concordance

27

bible on line concordance

6

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26

concordance line

6

concordance shakespeare

24

concordance hebrew

6

strong concordance

23

concordance youngs

5

concordance online strongs

22

bible concordance kjv

4

strongs bible concordance

21

concordance scripture

4

concordance harmonic

16

concordance niv online

4

niv concordance

10

strongs exhaustive concordance of the bible

4

concordance software

9

concordance line strongs

3

bible niv concordance

9

new testament concordance

3

bible concordance and dictionary

9

bible concordance niv online

3

king james bible concordance

9

concordance bible software

3

catholic concordance

8

bible concordance download

3

holy bible concordance

7

concordance septuagint

3

bible concordance free

6

crudens concordance

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Concordance

Language Translations for "concordance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

marrëveshje (accordance, agreement, arrangement, articles, bargain, bond, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordat, concurrence, consonance, contract, convention, covenant, deal, dealings, entente, pact, settlement, stipulation, treaty, tune, undertaking), listë alfabetike, harmoni (agreement, chime, concord, congruence, consentaneity, consonance, eurhythmics, harmonics, harmony, keeping, thorough bass, unity). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فهرس أبجدي, ‏إنسجام (accord, accordance, agreement, concert, concord, conformity, congruence, consonance, correspondence, curve, exaltation, harmony, smoothness, sympathy, symphony, unison, unity), ‏إتفاق (accord, community, compact, composition, concert, concord, deal, oneness, pact, promise, settlement, term, treaty, understanding, unity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съгласуване (accommodation, agreement, concord, concurrence, congruence, consecution, coordination, harmonization, liaison, reconcilement). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

'谐 (Harmonies, harmonious, harmonisation, harmonization, Harmony). (various references)

   

Czech

  

soulad (community, harmony, union). (various references)

   

Danish

  

konkordans. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

concordantie, concordans (table of concordance). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فهرست (Catalog, Catalogue, Legend, Phraseology, Registry, Repertory, Roll, Roster, Schedule, Table), هم شیبی , کشف اللغات , تطبیق نامه , راهنمای مطالب وموضوعات کتاب . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

järjestysten yhtäpitävyys. (various references)

   

French

  

concordance (concurrence). (various references)

   

German

  

konkordanz (table of concordance). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμφωνία (accord, accordance, agreement, arrangement, compact, concord, concurrence, conformity, consonance, deal, pact, stipulation, symphony). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קו קור"צי", ספר "מתאימות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szómutató (word index), konkordancia, összhang (accord, accordance, chime, concert, conformity, consonance, consonancy, consort, correspondence, diapason, harmony, rapport, symphony, unison). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

persetujuan (agreement, approval, assent, bargain, concert, consensus, deal), keselarasan (congruence, harmony), indeks (index). (various references)

   

Italian

  

concordanza (accord, accordance, agreement, concord, rapport). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lioar choonee (prompt book). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncordancecay

   

Portuguese

  

concordância (abidance, accordance, according, acquiescence, adhesion, agreement, approbation, assent, concord, concurrence, conformity, matchup). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

conformitate (agreeableness, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, correspondence, propriety, resemblance), concordanţã (accord, accordance, agreement, conformity, congruence, consistency, correspondence, harmony, keeping, sequence), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unity). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

соответствие (abidance, accordance, according, adequacy, agreeableness, appropriateness, aptness, concord, concurrence, conformance, conformance to, conformity, correspondence, fitness, mapping, parallel, suitability). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

saglasnost (accord, accordance, agreement, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, consent, consentaneity, keeping), registar reči. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

concordancia (abidance, agreement, leave, sequence). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

konkordans. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concord, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consistency, consonance, harmony, keeping, proportion, rapport, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), dizin, ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concurrence, congruence, congruity, consonance, echo, euphony, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

узгодженість (concurrence, congruence, consistency, ensemble, harmony), конкорданція, відповідність (accord, accordance, adequacy, appropriateness, aptness, conformity, congruence, correspondence, parallel, suitability, sympathy, truth), згода (accedence, accord, accordance, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, arrangement, assent, compliance, concert, concord, consensus, consent, consonance, entente, fiat, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, oneness, suit, understanding, yea, yes). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự phù hợp sách dẫn, mục lục. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

mynegair. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Concordance

Derivations

Words beginning with "concordance": concordances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Concordance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concordancer, concordancing, concordiance, concurance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Concordance"

Words rhyming with "concordance" (pronounced 'Con*cord"ance'): Abearance, Abeyance, Abidance, Abodance, Acceptance, Accordance, Achievance, Acquaintance, Admirance, Affirmance, Aggrievance, Aidance, Allegeance, Allurance, Annoyance, Appearance, Appendance, Appliance, Approvance, Arrivance, Assistance, Attendance, Avengeance, Avoidance, Avowance, Boastance, Buoyance, Chievance, Clairvoyance, Clearance, Coinsurance, Compliance, Comportance, Conductance, Confirmance, Conformance, Connivance, Contrivance, Conveyance, Defailance, Defiance, Durance, forbearance, grievance, guidance, impedance, INSURANCE, Manurance, misalliance, Misguidance. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Concordance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-n-n-o-o-r"

-3 letters: condoner, ordnance.

-4 letters: cardoon, concern, concord, condone, cooncan, coronae, crooned, raccoon.

-5 letters: accord, acnode, ancone, cancer, candor, canned, canner, canoed, cedarn, condor, conned, conner, cordon, cornea, corned, corona, craned, dancer, deacon, nacred, racoon, roadeo.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-n-n-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: concordances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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