Meaning of concordance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. agreement, concord (agreement of words with one another in gender, number, person, or case)
2. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
   countable, uncountable
3. Agreement of words with one another; concord.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. harmony, consonance (relation between two pitches played simultaneously)
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. concordance (alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found)
7. A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
   countable, uncountable
8. The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.”

“c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.”

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