- a state or condition of agreement or harmony
- a book that indexes the principal words in a literary work, often with the immediate context and an account of the meaning
- an index produced by computer or machine, alphabetically listing every word in a text
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con•cord•ance /kənˈkɔrdəns/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- [uncountable;
often: in + ~] agreement;
concord;
harmony: a strike not in concordance with the desires of the membership. - Literature[countable] an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.
con•cord•ance
(kon kôr′dns, kən-),USA pronunciation n.
- agreement;
concord;
harmony:the concordance of the membership. - Literaturean alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.
- an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.
- Psychiatry, Genetics(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.
- Medieval Latin concordantia. See concord, -ance
- Anglo-French, equivalent. to Middle French concordance
- Middle English concordaunce 1350–1400
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concordance /kənˈkɔːdəns/ n
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