To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
Source: tatoeba (1933)
Concept
//ˈkɑn.sɛpt//
Synonyms for "concept" (93 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
Related word relations
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2 entriesMore specific
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Synonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
12 entriesderived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
142 translations across 78 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- konsep noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Albanian
1 entries- koncept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- σύλληψις noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ἔννοια noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Arabic
2 entries- تَصَوُّر noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- مَفْهُوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Armenian
2 entries- կոնցեպցիա noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- հայեցակարգ noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- anlayış noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- düşüncə noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- məfhum noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Bashkir
1 entries- төшөнсә noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Basque
1 entries- kontzeptu noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Belarusian
4 entries- канцэ́пцыя noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- паня́цце noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- паня́цьце noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ідэ́я noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Bengali
2 entries- ধারণা noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- প্রত্যয় noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Bulgarian
4 entries- иде́я noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- конце́пция noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- поня́тие noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- предста́ва noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Burmese
2 entries- ခံယူချက် noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- အလို noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Catalan
1 entries- concepte noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- مەفھوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 概念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 觀念 /观念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 概念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 觀念 /观念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Czech
1 entries- pojem noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Danish
2 entries- begreb noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- koncept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Dari
2 entries- تَصَوُّر noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- مَفْهُوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Dutch
3 entries- begrip noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- concept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- opvatting noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Esperanto
1 entries- koncepto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Estonian
1 entries- mõiste noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Finnish
2 entries- konsepti noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- käsite noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
French
2 entries- concept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- notion noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Galician
1 entries- concepto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Georgian
2 entries- კონცეპცია noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ცნება noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
German
2 entries- Begriff noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- Konzept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Greek
2 entries- έννοια noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- σύλληψη noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- konsèp noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Hebrew
1 entries- מושג \ מֻשָּׂג noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Hindi
2 entries- अवधारणा noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- संकल्पना noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Hungarian
3 entries- elképzelés noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- fogalom noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- koncepció noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Icelandic
1 entries- hugtak noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Ido
1 entries- koncepto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Indonesian
1 entries- konsep noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Interlingua
1 entries- concepto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- تَصَوُّر noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- مَفْهوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Irish
1 entries- coincheap noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Italian
2 entries- concetto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ipotesi noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Japanese
3 entries- コンセプト noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 概念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 観念 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Kazakh
3 entries- түсінік noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- тұжырымдама noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ұғым noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Khmer
1 entries- ទស្សនាទាន noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Korean
4 entries- 개념 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 관념 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 컨셉 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- 콘셉트 noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- концепция noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- түшүнүк noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Lao
2 entries- ຄວາມຄຶດ noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ແນວຄວາມຄິດ noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Latvian
1 entries- jēdziens noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sąvoka noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Macedonian
2 entries- концепт noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- поим noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Malay
1 entries- konsep noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Malayalam
1 entries- ആശയം noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Mongolian
1 entries- ойлголт noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Māori
2 entries- ariā noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- aroro noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mefhûm noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- begrep noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- omgrep noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Pashto
1 entries- مفهوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Polish
2 entries- pojęcie noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- pomysł noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Portuguese
1 entries- conceito noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Romanian
1 entries- concept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Russian
3 entries- конце́пция noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- поня́тие noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- представле́ние noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kòncept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- pójam noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- ко̀нцепт noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- по́јам noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Slovak
1 entries- pojem noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Slovene
1 entries- pojem noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Spanish
1 entries- concepto noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Swedish
2 entries- begrepp noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- koncept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Tagalog
1 entries- dalumat noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Tajik
2 entries- мафҳум noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- тасаввур noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Tatar
1 entries- төшенчә noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Telugu
1 entries- భావన noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Thai
4 entries- ความคิด noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- มโนคติ noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- มโนทัศน์ noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- แนวความคิด noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Turkish
4 entries- düşünce noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- fikir noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- kavram noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- mefhum noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Turkmen
2 entries- düşünje noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- konsept noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Ukrainian
3 entries- конце́пція noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- поня́ття noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- іде́я noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Urdu
2 entries- تَصَوُّر noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- مَفہُوم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئۇقۇم noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- چۈشەنچە noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Uzbek
3 entries- konsepsiya noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- mafhum noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- tushuncha noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Vietnamese
2 entries- khái niệm noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
- quan niệm noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Welsh
1 entries- cysyniad noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַגריף noun (something understood and retained in the mind)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The concept is quite alien to our way of thinking.
Source: tatoeba (47964)
The concept of zero sprang from the Hindu culture.
Source: tatoeba (51277)
From this point we go on to an even more detailed examination of the concept of repression.
Source: tatoeba (57953)
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