1. an abstract idea: "structuralism is a difficult concept"
▪ a plan or intention: "the centre has kept firmly to its original concept"
▪ an idea or invention to help sell or publicize a commodity: "a new concept in corporate hospitality"
▪ (of a car or other vehicle) produced as an experimental model to test the viability of innovative design features: "a concept car for next month's Geneva motor show"
▪ an idea or mental image which corresponds to some distinct entity or class of entities, or to its essential features, or determines the application of a term (especially a predicate), and thus plays a part in the use of reason or language.
Word Originmid 16th century (in the sense ‘thought, imagination’): from Latin conceptum ‘something conceived’, from Latin concept- ‘conceived’, from concipere (see conceive).
