concordance
/kənˈkɔɹdəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books."
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 ~ *ḱr̥dés 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.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: concordance, concordantia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈkɔɹdəns/
- British English: /kənˈkɔːdəns/