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Definition: Concordant |
ConcordantAdjective1. In keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background". 2. Being of the same opinion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "concordant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Concordant \Con*cord"ant\, adjective. [Latin expression concordans, present participle of concordare: compare to the French expression concordant. See Concord.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mining | A. Said of intrusive igneous bodies, the contacts of which are parallel to the bedding or foliation of the country rock. CF:discordan b. Structurally conformable; said of strata displaying parallelism of bedding or structure. The term may be used where a hiatus cannot be recognized, but cannot be dismissed c. Said of radiometric ages, determined by more than one method, that are in agreement within the analytical precision for the determining methods; or of radiometric ages given by coexisting minerals, determined by thesame method, that are in agreement. (references) |
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Synonyms: ConcordantSynonyms: accordant (adj), agreeable (adj), agreeing(a) (adj), concurring(a) (adj), conformable (adj), consonant (adj), in accord(p) (adj), in agreement(p) (adj), of the same mind(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Adjective: agreeing, suiting; Verb: in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with; Noun: at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours. |
Concord | Adjective: concordant, congenial; agreeing;Verb: in accord; Noun: harmonious, united, cemented; banded together; allied; friendly; fraternal; conciliatory; at one with; of one mind; (assent). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Concordant |
| English words defined with "concordant": accordant, agreeable ♦ Concordantly, conformable, consonant ♦ in accord, in agreement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "concordant": Broken Music ♦ Flood Profile ♦ lopolith ♦ sphenolith. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Concordant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (accordant, concordant, unisonous), Romanian (concordant, conformable, harmonious). |
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Business | Article 85 1 prohibits "all agreements between enterprises, all decisions made by associations of enterprises and all concordant practices that might adversely affect trade between member states and whose purpose is to limit or prejudice free market within the Common Market. (references) | |
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| "Concordant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Concordant" is used about 13 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
concordant | 8 |
concordant bible | 4 |
concordant scripture | 2 |
concern concordant publishing | 2 |
concordant version | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "concordant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që pajtohet, i harmonishëm (consonant, harmonious, tunable, well-rounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منسجم (compatible, congruent, consonant, corresponding, harmonious, in agreement), ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), متفق (concurrent, correct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съгласуващ се (compatible, concurrent), съгласен (agreeable, agreed, granted, okay, okie dokey), хармоничен (harmonic, harmonious, integrated, symphonious, tuneful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一致 (Accordant, Coincident, Concord, Concurrent, Conform, Conformed, Conforming, Congruence, Congruent, Consistent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | souhlasný (approving, consistent, homologous, sympathetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | samstemmende indsprøjtning (concordant injection), konkordant stikprøve (concordant sample). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | concordante steekproef volgens Pitman (concordant sample), samenlopende injectie (concordant injection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | konkordantti otos (concordant sample), konkordantti intruusio (concordant injection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | concordant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einstimmig (by a unanimous vote, concordantly, for one voice, in unison, solid, solidly, unanimous, unanimously), übereinstimmend (accordant, according, coincided, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurring, conformable, conformably, consistent, consistently, consonantly, corresponding, jibing, matching, unanimously, unisonous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύμφωνοσ (accordant, agreed, compatible, concurrent, conformable, congruent, consonant, pursuant), αρμονικόσ (congruous, consonant, harmonic, harmonious, symphonic, symphonious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egybehangzó (concurrent, congruent, congruous, consilient), egyező (consistent, corresponding, harmonious), összhangban álló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | concorde (agreed), armonioso (clean, consonant, euphonious, harmonious, neat, shapely, tuneful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-vingyssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oncordantcay concordante (accordant, concurrent), harmonioso (accordant, canorous, conformable, consonant, euphonious, flowing, harmonious, melodious, numerous, orphic, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, united). (various references) concordant (conformable, harmonious), armonios (harmonious, harmoniously, interfluent, sweet, tuneful). (various references) согласный (accordant, agreeable, consilient, consonant, consonantal, content, correspondent, like minded), гармоничный (balanced, harmonic, harmonious, spheral, tuneful). (various references) skladan (harmonic, harmonious, lightsome, suitable, tunable), saglasan (according, agreeable, agreed, concurrent, consentaneous, consentient). (various references) concordante (accordant, consentient). (various references) samstämmig (concurrent, harmonious, unanimous), överenstämmande (coincident, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent). (various references) uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, harmonious, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious, tuneful). (various references) sazlaюyk (accordant). (various references) узгоджуваний, співзвучний (accordant, assonant, consonant, harmonious), відповідний (accordant, adequate, agreeable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, coincident, coincidental, commensurate, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, fit, homologous, mutual, pertinent, proper, relational, relative, respective, suitable, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai toutw sumfwnousin oi logoi twn profhtwn kaqwV gegraptai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et huic concordant verba prophetarum sicut scriptum est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the wordis of prophetis acorden to him, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And to this agreith ye wordes of ye Prophetes as it is written. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said, |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Albanian | Me këtë gjë pajtohen fjalët e profetëve, sikundër është shkruar: |
| Cebuano | Ug niini nahitakdo ang mga pulong sa mga profeta, sumala sa nahisulat nga nagaingon: |
| Croatian | S time su u skladu rijeèi Proroka. Ovako je doista pisano: |
| Danish | Og dermed stemme Profeternes Tale overens, som der er skrevet: |
| Dutch | En hiermede stemmen overeen de woorden der profeten, gelijk geschreven is: |
| Finnish | Ja tämän kanssa pitävät yhtä profeettain sanat, sillä näin on kirjoitettu: |
| French | Et avec cela s`accordent les paroles des prophètes, selon qu`il est écrit: |
| German | Und damit stimmen der Propheten Reden, wie geschrieben steht: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itu cocok dengan yang sudah dinubuatkan oleh nabi-nabi. Sebab ada tertulis begini, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka hal itu bersetuju dengan segala sabda nabi-nabi, seperti yang tersurat ini: |
| Italian | Con questo si accordano le parole dei profeti, come sta scritto: |
| Korean | 지 자 " 의 말 " 이 이 와 합 하 도 다 기 록 된 " |
| Latvian | Un ar to saskan pravieðu vârdi, kâ rakstîts: |
| Maori | E rite ana ano ki tenei nga korero a nga poropiti; i tuhituhia ra, |
| Norwegian | Og dermed stemmer profetenes ord overens, således som det er skrevet: |
| Portuguese | E com isto concordam as palavras dos profetas; como está escrito: |
| Rumanian | Wi cu faptul acesta se potrivesc cuvintele proorocilor, dupq cum este scris: |
| Shuar | Jusha Yúsnan etserin yaunchu aarmia nu Tímiatrusan Túrunayi. Júiti aarma: |
| Spanish | Con esto concuerdan las palabras de los profetas, como está escrito: |
| Swahili | Jambo hili ni sawa kabisa na maneno ya manabii, kama Maandiko Matakatifu yasemavyo: |
| Swedish | Därmed stämmer ock överens vad profeterna hava talat; ty så är skrivet: |
| Uma | Toe hibalia hante lolita-ra nabi owi, apa' ria nabi owi to mpolowa kanakio' -ra Alata'ala tauna to bela-ra to Yahudi jadi' ntodea-na. Moni-na hewa toi: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "concordant": concordantly. (additional references) | |
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"Concordant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concernant, confortans, Conodonta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "concordant" (pronounced 'Con*cord"ant'): Abeyant, Accomptant, Accordant, Accusant, Acquaintant, Adjoinant, Affiant, Affirmant, Aidant, Alliant, Appealant, Aspectant, Avowant, Buoyant, Calorifiant, Claimant, Codefendant, Complainant, Compliant, Confessant, Confutant, Consentant, Conservant, Conspirant, Containant, Contestant, Cotenant, Couchant, Creant, Declaimant, Declarant, Defiant, Delirant, Demandant, Durant, flamboyant, Forbearant, informant, lieutenant, Misdemeanant, Misinformant, Mountant, Obscurant, Obversant, Offendant, Pedant, Pendant, Perchant, Perseverant, Plainant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: concordat. | |
-2 letters: acrodont, nonactor. | |
-3 letters: cardoon, cartoon, coactor, concord, cooncan, coranto, donator, odorant, raccoon, tandoor, tornado. | |
-4 letters: accord, candor, cannot, canton, cantor, carton, condor, contra, cordon, corona, craton, croton, doctor, natron, nonart, racoon, ratoon. | |
-5 letters: acorn, actor, adorn, ancon, canon, canto, coact, cocoa, codon, condo, conto, cotan, croon, donna, donor, narco, octad, octan, racon, radon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: concordantly. | |
+3 letters: contradiction, nondemocratic. | |
+4 letters: contradictions, cotransduction, deconsecration. | |
+5 letters: cotransductions, deconcentration, deconsecrations. | |
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