Concepción

American  

[kawn-sep-syawn, kuhn-sep-see-ohn, -sep-shuhn] / ˌkɔn sɛpˈsyɔn, kənˌsɛp siˈoʊn, -ˈsɛp ʃən /

noun

1. a city in central Chile, near the mouth of the Bío-Bío River.

2. a city in central Paraguay, on the Paraguay River.

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Concepción British  

/ konθepˈθjon /

noun

1. an industrial city in S central Chile. Pop: 378 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Researchers from the University of Concepción in Chile, working with colleagues at the University of Maryland, uncovered a previously unknown signaling pathway in the hypothalamus, the brain region that controls hunger and fullness.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

The bulk of the evacuations were carried out in the cities of Penco and Lirquen, just north of Concepción, which have a combined population of 60,000.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

In more than 40 years of teaching university classes, research professor Concepción Valadez has observed that the environment where students come from greatly influences the development of impostorization.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Her father, Leonardo, was a construction worker who was born in Los Angeles but raised in Casas Grandes, Mexico, and her mother, Concepción, was a homemaker from Mexico.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

With malicious satisfaction, Concepción reports that their efforts have resulted mainly in failure.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen