Lexicon vs Concordance - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between lexicon and concordance is that lexicon is the vocabulary of a language while concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance.
lexicon
English
Noun
(wikipedia lexicon )
(en-noun)
The vocabulary of a language.
(linguistics) A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
(programming) The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
(rare) Any dictionary.
The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge)
A vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
- a baseball lexicon
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concordance
Noun
(en noun )
agreement; accordance; consonance
* (rfdate )
- Contrasts, and yet concordances .
(grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
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.
* c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), “Paul Bunyan”, contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
(computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
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