noun
Meaning 1
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
concept
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/
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Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/
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Canada, dialectal: /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ of the US
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Australian: /ˈkɔn.sept/
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New-Zealand: /ˈkɔ̟n.sept/
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noun
Meaning 2
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).
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noun
Meaning 3
A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: generic programming
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verb
Meaning 4
To conceive; to dream up.
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noun
Meaning 5
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conception, construct
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: idea, thought
Narrower terms: conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality, notion, category, rule, regulation, property, attribute, dimension, abstraction, abstract, quantity, part, section, division, whole, law, natural law, law of nature, lexicalized concept, hypothesis, possibility, theory, fact, linguistic rule
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin conceptusder. Middle French conceptbor. English 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.
Across languages
Translations
145 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: konsep — something understood and retained in the mind
- Albanian: koncept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Arabic: مَفْهُوم (mafhūm) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Arabic: تَصَوُّر (taṣawwur) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Armenian: հայեցակարգ (hayecʻakarg) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Armenian: կոնցեպցիա (koncʻepcʻia) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Azerbaijani: anlayış — something understood and retained in the mind
- Azerbaijani: məfhum — something understood and retained in the mind
- Azerbaijani: düşüncə — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bashkir: төшөнсә (töşönsə) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Basque: kontzeptu — something understood and retained in the mind
- Belarusian: паня́цце (panjáccje) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Belarusian: паня́цьце (panjácʹcje) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Belarusian: канцэ́пцыя (kancépcyja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Belarusian: ідэ́я (idéja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bengali: ধারণা (dharona) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bengali: প্রত্যয় (prottoẏ) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bulgarian: поня́тие (ponjátie) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bulgarian: предста́ва (predstáva) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bulgarian: иде́я (idéja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Bulgarian: конце́пция (koncépcija) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Burmese: အလို (a.lui) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Burmese: ခံယူချက် (hkam-yuhkyak) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Catalan: concepte — something understood and retained in the mind
- Chinese Cantonese: 概念 (koi3 nim6) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Chinese Cantonese: 觀念 /观念 (gun1 nim6) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Chinese Mandarin: 概念 (gàiniàn) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Chinese Mandarin: 觀念 /观念 (guānniàn) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Czech: pojem — something understood and retained in the mind
- Danish: begreb — something understood and retained in the mind
- Danish: koncept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Dutch: opvatting — something understood and retained in the mind
- Dutch: begrip — something understood and retained in the mind
- Dutch: concept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Esperanto: koncepto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Estonian: mõiste — something understood and retained in the mind
- Finnish: käsite — something understood and retained in the mind
- Finnish: konsepti — something understood and retained in the mind
- French: concept — something understood and retained in the mind
- French: notion — something understood and retained in the mind
- Galician: concepto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Georgian: კონცეპცია (ḳonceṗcia) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Georgian: ცნება (cneba) — something understood and retained in the mind
- German: Begriff — something understood and retained in the mind
- German: Konzept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Greek: έννοια (énnoia) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Greek: σύλληψη (sýllipsi) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ancient Greek: ἔννοια (énnoia) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ancient Greek: σύλληψις (súllēpsis) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Haitian Creole: konsèp — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hebrew: מושג \ מֻשָּׂג (muság) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hindi: अवधारणा (avdhārṇā) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hindi: संकल्पना (saṅkalpanā) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hungarian: elképzelés — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hungarian: fogalom — something understood and retained in the mind
- Hungarian: koncepció — something understood and retained in the mind
- Icelandic: hugtak — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ido: koncepto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Indonesian: konsep — something understood and retained in the mind
- Interlingua: concepto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Irish: coincheap — something understood and retained in the mind
- Italian: concetto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Italian: ipotesi — something understood and retained in the mind
- Japanese: 概念 (gainen) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Japanese: 観念 (kannen) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Japanese: コンセプト (konseputo) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Kazakh: тұжырымдама (tūjyrymdama) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Kazakh: ұғым (ūğym) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Kazakh: түсінік (tüsınık) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Khmer: ទស្សនាទាន (tŭəhsaʼnaatiən) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Korean: 개념 (gaenyeom) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Korean: 관념 (gwannyeom) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Korean: 콘셉트 (konsepteu) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Korean: 컨셉 (keonsep) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Central Kurdish: مەفھوم (mefhum) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Northern Kurdish: mefhûm — something understood and retained in the mind
- Kyrgyz: түшүнүк (tüşünük) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Kyrgyz: концепция (kontseptsiya) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Lao: ແນວຄວາມຄິດ (nǣu khuām khit) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Lao: ຄວາມຄຶດ (khuām khưt) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Latvian: jēdziens — something understood and retained in the mind
- Lithuanian: sąvoka — something understood and retained in the mind
- Macedonian: поим (poim) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Macedonian: концепт (koncept) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Malay: konsep — something understood and retained in the mind
- Malayalam: ആശയം (āśayaṁ) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Māori: ariā — something understood and retained in the mind
- Māori: aroro — something understood and retained in the mind
- Mongolian: ойлголт (ojlgolt) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Norwegian Bokmål: begrep — something understood and retained in the mind
- Norwegian Bokmål: omgrep — something understood and retained in the mind
- Pashto: مفهوم (mafhum) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Dari: مَفْهُوم (mafhūm) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Dari: تَصَوُّر (tasawwur) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Iranian Persian: مَفْهوم (mafhum) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Iranian Persian: تَصَوُّر (tasavvor) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Polish: pojęcie — something understood and retained in the mind
- Polish: pomysł — something understood and retained in the mind
- Portuguese: conceito — something understood and retained in the mind
- Romanian: concept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Russian: конце́пция (koncépcija) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Russian: поня́тие (ponjátije) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Russian: представле́ние (predstavlénije) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Russian: конце́пт (koncépt) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Russian: иде́я (idéja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Serbo-Croatian: по́јам — something understood and retained in the mind
- Serbo-Croatian: ко̀нцепт — something understood and retained in the mind
- Serbo-Croatian: pójam — something understood and retained in the mind
- Serbo-Croatian: kòncept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Slovak: pojem — something understood and retained in the mind
- Slovene: pojem — something understood and retained in the mind
- Spanish: concepto — something understood and retained in the mind
- Swedish: koncept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Swedish: begrepp — something understood and retained in the mind
- Tagalog: dalumat — something understood and retained in the mind
- Tajik: мафҳум (mafhum) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Tajik: тасаввур (tasavvur) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Tatar: төшенчә (töşençä) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Telugu: భావన (bhāvana) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Thai: แนวคิด (nɛɛo-kít) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Thai: มโนคติ (má-noo-ká-dtì) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Thai: ความคิด (kwaam-kít) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Thai: แนวความคิด (nɛɛo-kwaam-kít) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Thai: มโนทัศน์ (má-noo-tát) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkish: kavram — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkish: mefhum — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkish: düşünce — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkish: fikir — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkmen: düşünje — something understood and retained in the mind
- Turkmen: konsept — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ukrainian: конце́пція (koncépcija) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ukrainian: іде́я (idéja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ukrainian: поня́ття (ponjáttja) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Ukrainian: конце́пт (koncépt) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Urdu: مَفہُوم (mafhūm) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Urdu: تَصَوُّر (tasavvur) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Uyghur: چۈشەنچە (chüshenche) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Uyghur: ئۇقۇم (uqum) — something understood and retained in the mind
- Uzbek: tushuncha — something understood and retained in the mind
- Uzbek: konsepsiya — something understood and retained in the mind
- Uzbek: mafhum — something understood and retained in the mind
- Vietnamese: khái niệm — something understood and retained in the mind
- Vietnamese: quan niệm — something understood and retained in the mind
- Welsh: cysyniad — something understood and retained in the mind
- Yiddish: באַגריף (bagrif) — something understood and retained in the mind
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