What does concordance mean?
A list of words or phrases in a text, showing the words that co-occur with a particular word, often used in linguistics and literary analysis. A concordance is a comprehensive index of the words in a text, showing their frequency and context.
Example
"The scholar used a concordance to analyze the frequency of certain words in the novel."
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