Hypertext Webster Gateway: "concordance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Concordance \Con*cord"ance\, n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]
1. Agreement; accordance.
Contrasts, and yet concordances. --Carlyle.
2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [Obs.] --Aschlam.
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.
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might
have been called a living concordance. --Macaulay.
4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a
book.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
concordance
n 1: a harmonious state of things and their properties (as of
colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another
and with the whole [syn: {harmony}, {accord}, {concord}]
2: agreement of opinions [syn: {harmony}, {concord}]
3: an index of all main words in a book along with their
immediate contexts
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