concordance
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Definition of concordance
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Agreement; accordance; consonance.
“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.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)Agreement; accordance; consonance.
“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.”
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Agreement of words with one another; concord.
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(countable, uncountable)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.
“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.”
- (countable, uncountable)A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
- (countable, uncountable)The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
verb
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(transitive)To create a concordance from (a corpus).
“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.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Late Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Late Latin cor Late Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂…
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Late Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Late Latin cor Late Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
Words you can make from concordance
200+ playable · top: CONCORD (12 pts)
Best play concord 12 points8-letter words
2 words7-letter words
9 words6-letter words
29 words- ACCORD 11 pts
- CANCER 10 pts
- ACNODE 9 pts
- CANDOR 9 pts
- CANNED 9 pts
- CANOED 9 pts
- CARDON 9 pts
- CEDARN 9 pts
- CONDOR 9 pts
- CONNED 9 pts
- CORDON 9 pts
- CORNED 9 pts
- CRANED 9 pts
- DACRON 9 pts
- DANCER 9 pts
- DEACON 9 pts
- NACRED 9 pts
- ANCONE 8 pts
- CANNER 8 pts
- CANOER 8 pts
- CONNER 8 pts
- CONNOR 8 pts
- CORNEA 8 pts
- CORONA 8 pts
- NEOCON 8 pts
- RACOON 8 pts
- NARDOO 7 pts
- ROADEO 7 pts
- NOONER 6 pts
5-letter words
57 words- CODEC 10 pts
- COCOA 9 pts
- ACNED 8 pts
- ACRED 8 pts
- ARCED 8 pts
- CADRE 8 pts
- CANED 8 pts
- CARED 8 pts
- CEDAR 8 pts
- CODEN 8 pts
- CODER 8 pts
- CODON 8 pts
- CONDO 8 pts
- CONED 8 pts
- COOED 8 pts
- CORED 8 pts
- CREDO 8 pts
- DANCE 8 pts
- DECAN 8 pts
- DECOR 8 pts
- RACED 8 pts
- ACORN 7 pts
- ANCON 7 pts
- CANER 7 pts
- CANOE 7 pts
- CANON 7 pts
- COOER 7 pts
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- NARCO 7 pts
- NONCE 7 pts
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- OCREA 7 pts
- RACON 7 pts
- RANCE 7 pts
- RECON 7 pts
- ADORE 6 pts
- ADORN 6 pts
- ANDRO 6 pts
- ANODE 6 pts
- DENAR 6 pts
- DONNA 6 pts
- DONNE 6 pts
- DONOR 6 pts
- DRONE 6 pts
- OARED 6 pts
- ODEON 6 pts
- OREAD 6 pts
- RADON 6 pts
- RANDO 6 pts
- REDAN 6 pts
- REDON 6 pts
- RODEO 6 pts
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4-letter words
67 words- CECA 8 pts
- COCA 8 pts
- COCO 8 pts
- CROC 8 pts
- ACED 7 pts
- CADE 7 pts
- CARD 7 pts
- CODA 7 pts
- CODE 7 pts
- COED 7 pts
- CORD 7 pts
- CRED 7 pts
- DACE 7 pts
- DECO 7 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ACRO 6 pts
- ARCO 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CARN 6 pts
- CERO 6 pts
- CONE 6 pts
- CONN 6 pts
- COON 6 pts
- CORE 6 pts
- CORN 6 pts
- NARC 6 pts
- ONCE 6 pts
- ORCA 6 pts
- RACE 6 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DARN 5 pts
- DEAN 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DOER 5 pts
- DONA 5 pts
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- DORE 5 pts
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- RAND 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- REDO 5 pts
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- ROOD 5 pts
- AEON 4 pts
- AERO 4 pts
- ANON 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- NANO 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- NEON 4 pts
- NONA 4 pts
- NONE 4 pts
- NOON 4 pts
- RENO 4 pts
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3-letter words
35 words- CAD 6 pts
- COD 6 pts
- DOC 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- COO 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- ADO 4 pts
- AND 4 pts
- DAN 4 pts
- DEN 4 pts
- DOE 4 pts
- DON 4 pts
- DOR 4 pts
- END 4 pts
- NOD 4 pts
- ODA 4 pts
- ODE 4 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NAN 3 pts
- NOO 3 pts
- NOR 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
Hooks
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