Concordance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Concordance \Con*cord"ance\, n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]
     1. Agreement; accordance.
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              Contrasts, and yet concordances.      --Carlyle.
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     2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [Obs.] --Aschlam.
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     3. 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.
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              His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might
              have been called a living concordance. --Macaulay.
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     4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a
        book.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  concordance
       n 1: 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 [syn: {harmony}, {concord}]
       2: agreement of opinions [syn: {harmony}, {concord}]
       3: an index of all main words in a book along with their
          immediate contexts

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  205 Moby Thesaurus words for "concordance":
     acclamation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, affinity, agape,
     agreement, agreement of all, alliance, amity, assent, association,
     atlas, attune, attunement, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony,
     brotherly love, cahoots, calendar, caritas, casebook, catalog,
     catalogue raisonne, cement of friendship, charity, chime, chiming,
     chorus, city directory, classified catalog, co-working, coaction,
     coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship,
     codirectorship, coherence, coincidence, collaboration,
     collaborativeness, collectivism, collectivity, collusion,
     combination, combined effort, commensalism, common assent,
     common consent, common effort, common enterprise, communalism,
     communion, communism, communitarianism, community,
     community of interests, compatibility, complicity, concentus,
     concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concourse,
     concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity,
     congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction,
     consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion,
     consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency,
     consonance, consonancy, consort, conspiracy, cooperation,
     cooperativeness, correspondence, cyclopedia, diapason, diatesseron,
     dictionary catalog, directory, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism,
     ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, encyclopedia, equivalence, esprit,
     esprit de corps, euphony, feeling of identity, fellow feeling,
     fellowship, frictionlessness, gazetteer, general acclamation,
     general agreement, general consent, general voice, good vibes,
     good vibrations, happy family, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony,
     homophony, identity, index, intersection, joining of forces,
     joint effort, joint operation, junction, kinship, like-mindedness,
     love, mass action, meeting of minds, monochord, monody, morale,
     mutual assistance, mutual understanding, mutualism, mutuality,
     octet, one accord, one voice, oneness, overlap, parallelism,
     parasitism, peace, phone book, polyglot, pooling,
     pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, rapport,
     rapprochement, reciprocity, record book, reference book, same mind,
     saprophytism, self-consistency, septet, sextet, sharing,
     simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, source book, studbook,
     symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism,
     synchronization, synergism, synergy, tally, team spirit, teamwork,
     telephone book, telephone directory, three-part harmony, timing,
     total agreement, trio, triumvirate, troika, tune, unanimity,
     unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unison,
     unisonance, united action, unity, universal agreement,
     work of reference