{
    "term": "illusion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a false idea or belief, especially about somebody or about a situation",
            "sensetop": "under the illusion that…illusion about something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's under the illusion that *(= believes wrongly that)* she'll get the job.",
                    "contextForm": "under the illusion that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new president **has no illusions** about the difficulties facing her country *(= she knows that the country has serious problems)*.",
                    "contextForm": "illusion about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **have no illusions** about her feelings for me *(= I know the truth is that she does not love me)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don’t want to have my illusions shattered!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want to give him any false illusions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I never had any grand illusions of winning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think I have lost all the illusions I had left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now is the time to shed our illusions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To believe you have nothing more to learn is a dangerous illusion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Meeting my hero in real life really shattered all my illusions about him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To believe that you're safe is a dangerous illusion."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dangerous", "optical", "visual"],
                "verb + illusion": ["be under", "entertain", "have"],
                "preposition": ["illusion about", "illusion as to"],
                "phrases": ["be all an illusion"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "something that seems to exist but in fact does not, or seems to be something that it is not",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Mirrors in a room often give an illusion of space."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The idea of absolute personal freedom is an illusion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It turned out that their happy marriage was all an illusion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The figure was only a trick of light, a mere illusion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The slogan provides the comforting illusion that something is being done."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are trying to maintain the illusion that the company is in good shape."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They wanted to create the illusion of being a close, happy family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The huge size of the vehicle gives the illusion of safety."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dangerous", "optical", "visual"],
                "verb + illusion": ["be under", "entertain", "have"],
                "preposition": ["illusion about", "illusion as to"],
                "phrases": ["be all an illusion"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈluːʒn/",
                "audio": "il/illusion/illusion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈluːʒn/",
                "audio": "il/illusion/illusion__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘deceiving, deception’): via Old French from Latin illusio(n-), from illudere ‘to mock’, from in- ‘against’ + ludere ‘play’."
}