/kənˈsɜːn/
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Translation
A worried feeling about something, or a thing that matters to you.
Word origin
From Latin concernere, meaning to sift together, which later came to mean to have to do with.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- concernere
- English cognates
- discern
Grammar
Gender
Pluralconcerns
Examples
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"Concern" here means the thing she worries about most.
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This means there is nothing to worry about.
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Here "concern" is used as a verb, meaning to be about or to matter to.
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