concordance
noun · verb
Simple meaning
An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈkɑnkɔɹdəns
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Definition
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noun
chiefly biblical
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.
Agreement of opinions
Agreement; accordance; consonance.
computational linguistics
A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
verb
transitive
To create a concordance from (a corpus).
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Formality
- Technical
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This meaning: 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.
Used this way, concordance is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
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Compound terms
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A coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things.
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