Standard Lemma guide

concordance

noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈkɔːdəns/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /kənˈkɔɹdəns/

1

noun

Meaning 1

Agreement; accordance; consonance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Agreement of words with one another; concord.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: agreement, concord

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: chiefly biblical studies

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.

A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: chiefly biblical studies

Topics: computational, computing, engineering, human-sciences, linguistics, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To create a concordance from (a corpus).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: index

9

noun

Meaning 9

agreement of opinions

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: harmony, concord

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: agreement

10

noun

Meaning 10

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: harmony, concord

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: order

Narrower terms: peace, comity, agreement, accord

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Latin cor Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: съгла́сие (sǎglásie) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Bulgarian: хармо́ния (harmónija) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Catalan: concordança — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Finnish: yhtäpitävyys — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Finnish: sopusointu — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • French: concordance — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • German: Übereinstimmung — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Polish: zgodność — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Romanian: concordanță — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Romanian: acord — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Romanian: potrivire — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Romanian: armonie — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Russian: согла́сие (soglásije) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Russian: согласо́ванность (soglasóvannostʹ) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Russian: согласова́ние (soglasovánije) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Spanish: concordanza — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Ukrainian: зла́годженість (zláhodženistʹ) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Ukrainian: узго́дженість (uzhódženistʹ) — agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
  • Armenian: համաբարբառ (hamabarbaṙ) — alphabetical index
  • Dutch: concordantie — alphabetical index
  • Esperanto: konkordanco — alphabetical index
  • Finnish: konkordanssi — alphabetical index
  • French: concordance — alphabetical index
  • Georgian: სიმფონია-ლექსიკონი (simponia-leksiḳoni) — alphabetical index
  • German: Konkordanz — alphabetical index
  • Hebrew: קוֹנְקוֹרְדַּנְצִיָּה (konkordántsiya) — alphabetical index
  • Hungarian: konkordancia — alphabetical index
  • Hungarian: szómutató — alphabetical index
  • Indonesian: konkordansi — alphabetical index
  • Malay: konkordans — alphabetical index
  • Norwegian: konkordans — alphabetical index
  • Persian: واژهیاب — alphabetical index
  • Polish: konkordancja — alphabetical index
  • Portuguese: índice remissivo — alphabetical index
  • Russian: конкорда́нция (konkordáncija) — alphabetical index
  • Russian: конкорда́нс (konkordáns) — alphabetical index
  • Russian: симфо́ния (simfónija) — alphabetical index
  • Spanish: concordancias — alphabetical index
  • Spanish: concordanza — alphabetical index