concern
Syllables: con·cernUK/kənˈsɜːn//kənˈsɝn/
concern noun: that which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
Noun
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie.
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- Most people in Australia have no concern for the recent events in London.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the document.
- The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret...2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2023, page 26
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report.
- Appleby […] rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- The employees’ attitude is really hurting the concern.
- a going concern
- Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148
Verb
concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)
- To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts xxviii:31
- our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
- They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- To make somebody worried.
- I’m concerned that she’s becoming an alcoholic.
concern meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
concern in Hindi
- business, firm or enterprise; a company
- समुत्थान samutthān
concern in Tamil
- அக்கறை, கவலை, நிறுவனம், கவக்கூறு, சம்பந்தமாக
concern in Marathi
- concern, worry
- चिंता cintā
concern in Urdu
- that which affects one’s welfare or happiness
- تشویش taśvīś, فکر fikr
More languagesFewer languages
- concern in Bengali
- উদ্বেগ udbeg, পরোয়া porōẇa
- concern in Telugu
- జోలి jōli, పట్టింపు paṭṭimpu
- concern in Malayalam
- വിചാരം vicāraṁ
- concern in Kannada
- ಬೇವಸ, ತಲ್ಲಣ, ಕಳವಳ, ಎದೆಗುದಿ
- concern in Odia
- ଚିନ୍ତା
- concern in Nepali
- चिन्ता
- concern in Arabic
- خَصَّ ḵaṣṣa, هَمَّ hamma
- concern in Vietnamese
- làm cho lo ngại
Examples of concern in a sentence
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The...
- Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern, Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC’s insistence on editorial independence.2001 November 18, Fouad Ajami, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2019...
- ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy:
Synonyms of concern
Antonyms
Forms of concern
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | concerns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | concerns |
| present participle | concerning |
| past participle | concerned |
| past | concerned |
Origin of concern
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernō, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concernō (“to mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cernō (“distinguish”).
Words formed from concern
- book concern
- concern group
- concernment
- concern troll
- concernworthy
- dual-use research of concern
- microconcern
- misconcern
- nonconcern
- separation of concerns
- unconcernment
- underconcern
- overconcern
- as far as I'm concerned
- concernable
- to those it may concern
- to whom it may concern
- to whom this may concern
Phrases with concern
Words that rhyme with concern
Questions about concern
- What does concern mean?
- Concern means that which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- What is concern in Hindi?
- Concern in Hindi is समुत्थान (samutthān). See Concern meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use concern in a sentence?
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.
- What part of speech is concern?
- Concern can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce concern?
- Concern is pronounced /kənˈsɝn/ (US).
- What is the plural of concern?
- The plural of concern is concerns.
Words near concern in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concern (page history and authors); concern (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चिंता (Marathi) (page history and authors); జోలి (Telugu) (page history and authors); വിചാരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); concern (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concern (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concern (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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