Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Harmonious; agreeing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agreeing; agreeable; correspondent; suitable; harmonious.
- In music, consisting of a concord, or having the effect of one. See
concord , 3, and consonant, a., 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Agreeing ;correspondent ;harmonious ;consonant ; in keeping with;agreeable with; concordant with; concordant to
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in keeping
- adjective being of the same opinion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
Consul-At-Arms 2008
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
Consul-At-Arms 2008
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
Consul-At-Arms 2008
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
Consul-At-Arms 2008
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Still, how strangely concordant that the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and his American counterpart Paul Strand should both have been roaming Mexico's ancient towns at roughly the same time, unbeknownst to one another.
Two Sides of the Same Coin Tobias Grey 2012
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So concordant with the air in this place, with the breath from her body, he isn't sure that he can breathe on the other side.
Tableau 2010
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Rather, what makes this group special is the way it forges a sweetly concordant sound from a set of significantly different voice types.
Anonymous 4's unique gifts shine in 'Noel' concert Post 2010
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This reflects perhaps a culture of neutrality in matters that are religious, which is seen to be in the spirit of Alfred Nobel himself, and is very concordant with a Norwegian discretion about religious allegiance.
Katherine Marshall: Faith, Peace And The Nobel: A Conversation With Former Bishop Of Oslo Gunnar Stalsett Katherine Marshall 2010
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To opine for 427 words (yes, I counted) about the war's deep costs to our economy and the concordant need to limit it's impact and then try to get away with redefining your promise to as little as a two-percent cost reduction qualifies as used-car hucksterism of the lowest sort -- the kind that tricks people into a product that kills lots of people and leaves the survivors broke.
Derrick Crowe: Who's the Huckster for This High-Interest War? 2010
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