Usually means: Mental representation of an idea.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. concept: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. concept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concept: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concept: Vocabulary.com
  6. Concept, concept: Wordnik
  7. concept: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. concept: Wiktionary
  9. concept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. concept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. concept: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. concept: Dictionary.com
  13. concept: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. concept: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Concept (album), Concept (band), Concept (board game), Concept (disambiguation), Concept (generic programming), Concept, The Concept (song), The Concept: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Concept: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. concept: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. concept: Rhymezone
  19. concept, concept (het), concept (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. concept: Free Dictionary
  21. concept: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. concept: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. concept: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. concept: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. concept: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Concept: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. concept: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. concept: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONCEPT: Acronym Finder
  2. concept: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. concept: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. concept: Anthropological Terms
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concept: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See concepting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
noun:  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).
noun:  (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
verb:  to conceive; to dream up

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