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==Origin==

==Origin==

late [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (in the sense ‘formed by [[cohesion]], 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 ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete building material]’ dates from the mid 19th cent.

late [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (in the sense ‘formed by [[cohesion]], 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 ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete building material]’ dates from the mid 19th cent.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==