Definitions for concept

concept con·cept

Spelling: [kon-sept]
IPA: /ˈkɒn sɛpt/

Concept is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in concept (ccenopt).

Definitions for concept

noun

  1. a general notion or idea; conception.
  2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
  3. a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.

adjective

  1. functioning as a prototype or model of new product or innovation:

verb (used with object)

  1. Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive:

Origin of concept

1550-60; Latin conceptum something conceived, orig. neuter of conceptus (past participle of concipere), equivalent to con- con- + cep- (variant stem of -cipere, combin

Examples for concept

One of the most romantic—and, some would say, unrealistic—phenomena of American culture is the concept of “the one.”

But the band grew and grew and we were a force to be reckoned with as a concept.

I felt this the more when to the concept of Infinitude I added that of Intelligence.

A non-loving Universal Thought was too monstrous a concept to entertain.

To attempt to eliminate fear and retain this concept of God is vain.

The creator Armando Iannucci adapted the concept for an American audience in Veep.

They will test our courage, our devotion to duty, and our concept of liberty.

“The idea was to mess with the concept of Christmas,” recalled John Law, an original Cacophony member.

He would rather live and die in fear than change this concept of God.

But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

Word Value for concept
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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