concern
something that interests you because it is important or affects you
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,627 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,375 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you the safety of the ship is the captain's concern
- an anxious feeling also: care, fear care had aged himthey hushed it up out of fear of public reaction
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something She felt strong concern for those less fortunate
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness also: worry, headache, vexation New York traffic is a constant concernit's a major worry
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it also: business, business concern, business organization, business organisation he bought his brother's businessa small mom-and-pop business
verb
- be relevant to also: refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch There were lots of questions referring to her talkMy remark pertained to your earlier comments
- be on the mind of also: interest, occupy, worry I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift
concern in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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What he did gave her little concern.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1
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Facts, and again facts are his unique concern.
Notes on Life & Letters · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 2
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Give yourselves no further concern, let your minds be at peace.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 9. · Mark Twain · Chapter 2
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Your excellent father, whose special concern you are, has often spoken to me of you.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I told myself the doings of Augustus were nothing to me, and henceforth should not concern me in any way.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1