{
    "term": "passion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a very strong feeling of love, hate, anger, enthusiasm, etc.",
            "sensetop": "with passion",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I admire the passion and commitment shown by the players."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She argued her case with considerable passion.",
                    "contextForm": "with passion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **crime of passion** *(= caused by strong feelings of sexual )*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Passions were running high** *(= people were angry and emotional)* at the meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a man of violent passions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That passion drove me to get to the top."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team has been playing with renewed passion this season."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were moments of high passion in the game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This issue always arouses passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a speech full of passion"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["grand", "great", "all-consuming"],
                "… of passion": ["surge", "wave"],
                "verb + passion": ["arouse", "awaken", "ignite"],
                "passion + verb": ["cool", "wane", "drive somebody"],
                "preposition": ["with passion", "passion between", "passion for"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a crime of passion",
                    "full of passion",
                    "a night of passion"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a very strong feeling of liking something; a hobby, an activity, etc. that you like very much",
            "sensetop": "passion for somethingpassion for doing something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Music is his true passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She left her job to **pursue her** lifelong **passion** for painting.",
                    "contextForm": "passion for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a quiet man with a passion for writing poetry.",
                    "contextForm": "passion for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **shared a passion** for Italian food."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Music is a passion with him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The English have a passion for gardens."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Elliot and Nina discovered a shared passion for poetry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He developed a real passion for acting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had very little time to indulge her passion for painting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "his lifelong passion for aeroplanes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "his renewed passion for the game"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a very strong feeling of sexual love",
            "sensetop": "passion (for somebody)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His passion for her made him blind to everything else."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No one had ever aroused his passion as much as Sandra."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She didn't believe in grand passion or love at first sight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was her first great passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The passion between them had cooled."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They kissed with passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They spent a night of passion in a hotel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who is the object of his passion this time?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships", "Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["grand", "great", "all-consuming"],
                "… of passion": ["surge", "wave"],
                "verb + passion": ["arouse", "awaken", "ignite"],
                "passion + verb": ["cool", "wane", "drive somebody"],
                "preposition": ["with passion", "passion between", "passion for"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a crime of passion",
                    "full of passion",
                    "a night of passion"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a state of being very angry",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She **flies into a passion** if anyone even mentions his name."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "rage",
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the suffering and death of Jesus Christ",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you love, hate, etc. somebody/something with a passion, you love, hate, etc. them/it very much",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "To do this job you have to love architecture with a passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She hated him with a passion."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæʃn/",
                "audio": "pa/passion/passion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæʃn/",
                "audio": "pa/passion/passion__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio(n-) (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from Latin pati ‘suffer’."
}