Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Source : WordNet®
concordance
n 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 [syn: {harmony}, {concord}]
2: agreement of opinions [syn: {harmony}, {concord}]
3: an index of all main words in a book along with their
immediate contexts