👉 In linguistics, a concordance is a lexical item that occurs in multiple senses or interpretations. It is a way of expressing the idea of a word having more than one meaning, and it can be used to clarify meanings or to indicate how two words are related. For example, "to make a deal" is a concordant because it has two meanings: "to agree on a contract" (a specific kind of agreement) and "to have a good deal" (a general