Meaning of concrete in English

Verb
concrete
Definitions
1. cover with cement
Examples
- « concrete the walls »
2. form into a solid mass
Examples
- « coalesce »
Classifying Adjective
concrete
Definitions
1. formed by the coalescence of particles
Synonyms
- solid
Noun
concrete
Definitions
1. a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
Qualitative Adjective
concrete
Etymology
late Middle English (in the sense ‘solidified’): from French concret or Latin concretus, past participle of concrescere‘grow together’. Early use was also as a grammatical term designating a quality belonging to a substance (usually expressed by an adjective such as white in white paper) as opposed to the quality itself (expressed by an abstract noun such as whiteness); later concrete came to be used to refer to nouns embodying attributes (e.g. fool, hero), as opposed to the attributes themselves (e.g. foolishness, heroism), and this is the basis of the modern use as the opposite of ‘abstract’. The noun sense ‘building material’ dates from the mid 19th century
Definitions
1. capable of being perceived by the senses
Examples
- « not abstract or imaginary »
- « concrete objects such as trees »
Synonyms
Antonyms
- abstract

Pronunciation