concordance UK /kənˈkɔːdəns/US /kənˈkɔɹdəns/noun 6verb 1forms 3 noun6 •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. — 1850 •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.His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. — 1857 •A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage. •The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic. •A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription. •(no longer used) Agreement of words with one another; concord. verb1 •To create a concordance from (a corpus). formsconcordanced · concordancing · concordances