{
    "term": "notion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an idea, a belief or an understanding of something",
            "sensetop": "notion of somethingnotion that…notion how, what, why, etc…notion about something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a political system based on the notions of equality and liberty",
                    "contextForm": "notion of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had only a vague notion of what might happen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has no notion of the difficulty of the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The author challenges **preconceived notions** of storytelling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She dismissed the **very notion** of compromise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have to reject the notion that greed can be a good thing.",
                    "contextForm": "notion that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I haven't the faintest notion how to get there.",
                    "contextForm": "notion how, what, why, etc…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't have any romantic notions about rural living.",
                    "contextForm": "notion about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was committed to the notion of tolerance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's got some vague notion that people will be queuing up to finance the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There seems to be a general notion that nothing can be done about the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They refused to entertain the notion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We must dispel this notion that you can rely on the state for everything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had only the vaguest notion of what he was like."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our political system is based on notions of justice and equality."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absurd", "foolish", "misguided"],
                "verb + notion": ["have", "challenge", "debunk"],
                "preposition": ["notion of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊʃn/",
                "audio": "no/notion/notion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊʃn/",
                "audio": "no/notion/notion__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin notio(n-) ‘idea’, from notus ‘known’, past participle of noscere."
}