concept
/ˈkɒn.sɛpt/US/ˈkɑn.sɛpt/
concept noun: an abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
Noun
concept (plural concepts)
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
- Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness...2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012
- A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Verb
concept (third-person singular simple present concepts, present participle concepting, simple past and past participle concepted)
concept meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
concept in Hindi
- something understood and retained in the mind
- अवधारणा avdhārṇā, संकल्पना saṅkalpanā
concept in Tamil
- கருத்துரு, கருத்துப் படிவம், எண்ணக்கரு, கருத்து, கருத்தாக்கம், கருத்தீட்டு
concept in Marathi
- concept, conception, notion
- संकल्पना saṅkalpanā
concept in Urdu
- something understood and retained in the mind
- مَفہُوم mafhūm, تَصَوُّر tasavvur
More languagesFewer languages
- concept in Bengali
- ধারণা dharona, প্রত্যয় prottoẏ
- concept in Telugu
- భావన bhāvana
- concept in Malayalam
- ആശയം āśayaṁ
- concept in Kannada
- ಭಾವನೆ, ಪರಿಕಲ್ಪನೆ, ಊಹೆ, ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ
- concept in Punjabi
- ਸੰਕਲਪ, ਸੰਕਲਪਨਾ
- concept in Gujarati
- ખ્યાલ, વિભાવના
- concept in Sinhala
- සංකල්පය saṁkalpaya
- concept in Pashto
- مفهوم mafhum
- concept in Tagalog
- dalumat
- concept in Arabic
- مَفْهُوم mafhūm, تَصَوُّر taṣawwur
- concept in Malay
- konsep
- concept in Indonesian
- konsep
- concept in Thai
- แนวคิด nɛɛo-kít, มโนคติ má-noo-ká-dtì, ความคิด kwaam-kít, แนวความคิด nɛɛo-kwaam-kít
- concept in Vietnamese
- khái niệm, quan niệm
- concept in Myanmar
- အလို a.lui, ခံယူချက် hkam-yuhkyak
Examples of concept in a sentence
- Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense.2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race.2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page...
Synonyms of concept
Forms of concept
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | concepts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | concepts |
| present participle | concepting |
| past participle | concepted |
| past | concepted |
Origin of concept
Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Words formed from concept
- closed-concept
- concept album
- concept art
- concept artist
- concept car
- concept drift
- conceptious
- conceptless
- concept map
- concept of operations
- conceptor
- concept video
- gap concept
- high concept
- high-concept
- macroconcept
- metaconcept
- microconcept
- multiconcept
- open-concept
- operating concept
- preconcept
- primitive concept
- proof of concept
- proof-of-concept
- pseudoconcept
- puncept
- self-concept
- subconcept
Phrases with concept
Questions about concept
- What does concept mean?
- Concept means an abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- What is concept in Hindi?
- Concept in Hindi is अवधारणा (avdhārṇā), संकल्पना (saṅkalpanā). See Concept meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use concept in a sentence?
- Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense.
- What part of speech is concept?
- Concept can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce concept?
- Concept is pronounced /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of concept?
- The plural of concept is concepts.
Words near concept in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concept (page history and authors); concept (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संकल्पना (Marathi) (page history and authors); concept (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concept (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concept (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); සංකල්පය (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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