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Concordance Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ance

Concordance has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole

"The artist admired the painting's concordance, where every shade of blue and soft brushstroke worked together to create a perfectly unified scene."

2

agreement of opinions

"After years of arguing over budget cuts, the two committee members finally reached a concordance on how to allocate funds for education."

3

an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts

"The scholar consulted the concordance to verify every instance where the author used the word "freedom.""

4

Agreement; accordance; consonance.

"The sudden change in weather showed a clear concordance between the dark clouds gathering on the horizon and the storm forecasted for later that afternoon."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
order agreement index
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
peace comity agreement
Rhyming Words
nce ance ince unce ence once vince sence ponce nance munce vance dunce hence bonce ounce nonce gance dance vonce
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