conceptnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒn.sept/us/ˈkɑːn.sept/B2 a principle or idea:
The concept of free speech is unknown to them.
It is very difficult to define the concept of beauty.
I failed to grasp the film's central concept.
Kleenbrite is a whole new concept in toothpaste!
not have any concept/have no concept of sth
to not understand about something:
I don't think you have any concept of the pain you have caused her.
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- In this country, time is an elastic concept.
- It is sometimes easier to illustrate an abstract concept by analogy with something concrete.
- The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.
- Many voters are staunch anti-federalists, opposed to the concept of regional government.
- This is a very difficult concept to get hold of.
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- conception
- construct
- content
- dogma
- fancy
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- motif
- proposition
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- the domino theory
- thrust
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