conception en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /kənˈsepʃən/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /kənˈsɛpʃən/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin conceptiōlbor. Old French conceptionbor. Middle English concepcioun English conception From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive. Equivalent to conceive + -tion.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The act of conceiving.
- (countable, uncountable) The state of being conceived; the beginning.
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(countable, uncountable) The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt Their angry ſeedes at his conception: For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race, Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride, He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
- (countable, uncountable) The start of pregnancy.
- (countable, uncountable) The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
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(countable, uncountable) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view.
c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
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(countable, uncountable) An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:"Around the World in Eighty Days" once had so much appeal to the imagination that Jules Verne wrote a novel about it. The latest proposal is to girdle the globe in three months in a flying machine. The practicability of such a flight is here discussed by an expert. Mr. Woodhouse is a member of the Aero Club of America and managing editor of "Flying". ¶ When the Aero Club of America received the news that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition had decided to offer $300,000 in prize money for a ninety-day aircraft race around the world, no one connected with aeronautics laughed at the conception or called it the dream of a Verne or a Wells. A map of the course indicates that to circumaviate the globe will mean flights over mountains and deserts, through storms, and across seas. But formidable obstacles in all of these classifications have been surmounted before by airmen, and, of course, can be surmounted again.
1914 February 28, Henry Woodhouse, “Girdling the Globe by Motor-Driven Aircraft”, in Collier's, volume 52, number 24, page 13:
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(countable, uncountable) Something conceived or designed.
The figure was placed on a low pedestal, sufficiently raised from the carpet on four plain wooden legs for all the space underneath to be clearly visible. The body was a squat, cross-legged conception, typical of an Indian deity […]
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| conceptions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
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Deriveds
false conception · self-conception · anticonception · nonconception · Conception Bay · conceptionist · products of conception · conceptional · conceptionism · prevenception · preconception · post conception · control of conception · reconception · postconception · non-conception · superconception · artist's conception · post-conception · periconception
Relateds
conceive · concept · contraception
Translations (118)
uk зача́ття (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · nl ontvangenis (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hi गर्भधारण (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sl spočetje (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · bg предста́ва (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · fi hedelmöittyminen (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · be зача́цце (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sk počatie (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · be апладне́нне (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · gl concepción (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concepere (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro zămislire (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · an concepción (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · be апладне́ньне (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sl zanositev (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · tl lihi (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · cmn 受胎 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ba төшөнсә (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · nb unnfangelse (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · it concepimento (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ru поня́тие (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · es concepción (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ko 임신 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · he הִתְעַבְּרוּת (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · it concetto (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · sh začéće (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hu fogamzás (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · kk тұжырымдама (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · mk зачнување (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · fr conception (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · hu felfogás (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · el ιδέα (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · eo gravediĝo (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · es ideación (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · da befrugtning (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ru иде́я (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · de Vorstellung (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · uk заплі́днення (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ka ჩასახვა (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · fi suunnittelu (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · pt conceção (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro imagine (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · bg конце́пция (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · uga 𐎅𐎗𐎊 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · la conceptio (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ja 妊娠 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · cmn 受胎啟動 /受胎启动 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · da undfangelse (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · vi quan niệm (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · eo konceptaĵo (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · hu koncepció (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ro idee (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ko 수태 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · fi käsitteenmuodostus (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · pl poczęcie (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hi परिकल्पना (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · de Empfängnis (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · el σύλληψη (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · pam pamangagli (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concept (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · it concezione (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concepere (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · nl concept (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ca concepció (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hi संकल्पना (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ja 受胎 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · nl bevruchting (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sh koncèpcija (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · pdt Äwalaj (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · nn unnfanging (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · bg разбиране (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · cmn 受精 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · tl kadalumatan (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · bg поня́тие (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · pl koncepcja (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · az mayalanma (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · tr döllenme (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concepție (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ar حَمْل (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ru представле́ние (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · el σύλληψη (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · bg заче́ване (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concepții (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · is getnaður (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sh концѐпција (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ar حَبَل (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · mn ойлголт (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · tl kadalumatan (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind) · de Konzeption (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · kk ұрықталу (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · az döllənmə (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ga coimpeart (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hu fogantatás (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · el επικύηση (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · uk конце́пція (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · fr conception (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · hy հղիացում (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · sv konception (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · cs početí (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · el επινόηση (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · ru конце́пция (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · sh заче́ће (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · fi hedelmöitys (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · cmn 懷孕 /怀孕 (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · vec concesion (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · pt concepção (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ro concepție (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · af konsepsie (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · da konception (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · et kontseptsioon (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · enm concepcioun (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · hu fogalom (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · lv koncepcija (an image, idea, or notion formed in the mind — see also concept) · tr aşılanma (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · tl paglilihi (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · ru зача́тие (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · enm concepcioun (initiation of an embryonic animal life) · eo konceptado (the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind)