Definitions for concordance

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concordance con·cord·ance

Spelling: [kon-kawr-dns, kuh n-]

IPA: /kɒnˈkɔr dns, kən-/

Concordance is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 393 anagrams from letters in concordance (acccdennoor).

Definitions for concordance

noun

1. agreement; concord; harmony:
2. an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.
3. an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.
4. (in genetic studies) the degree of similarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a particular disease or trait.

Origin of concordance

1350-1400; Middle English concordaunce Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French concordance Medieval Latin concordantia. See concord, -ance

Examples for concordance

She spent an hour or two going over her Bible and concordance.

It is a concordance to all literature; not of words, but of phrases.

These can readily be hunted out with the help of a concordance.

The concordance was, however, rescued from an untimely fate.

What concordance was it that required to be established thus?

He will come back, murmured Chavvy, in concordance with her leitmotif.

She brought the concordance and found there was no reference to omnipresence.

And the concordance is not an ordinary one of words and names.

There is a concordance to the plays and fragments by H. Dunbar .

The purchaser gets not only a concordance, but also a Bible, in this volume.