Begriff — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apprehension noun A worried feeling that something bad might happen; anxiety about the future.
- concept noun A general idea or notion formed in the mind, especially an abstract one.
- notion noun An idea, belief, or understanding about something.
- term noun A word or expression, especially one with a specific meaning in a particular field.
Senses
Begriff is used for these senses in English:
- apprehension Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- concept 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).
- household name A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.
- notion Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
- term A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- term With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymically) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
apprehension — full definition
- noun A worried feeling that something bad might happen; anxiety about the future.
- noun The act of catching or arresting someone.
- noun Basic understanding or grasp of an idea.