inspiration

inspiration
[[t]ɪ̱nspɪre͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]]
inspirations
1) N-UNCOUNT Inspiration is a feeling of enthusiasm you get from someone or something, which gives you new and creative ideas.

My inspiration comes from poets like Baudelaire and Jacques Prévert...

What better way of finding inspiration for your own garden than by visiting others.

2) N-SING: an N, oft N to n (approval) If you describe someone or something good as an inspiration, you mean that they make you or other people want to do or achieve something.

Powell's unusual journey to high office is an inspiration to millions...

She was a great inspiration. She was the person who impressed us with the importance of research.

3) N-SING: oft the N for/behind n If something or someone is the inspiration for a particular book, work of art, or action, they are the source of the ideas in it or act as a model for it.

India's myths and songs are the inspiration for her books...

The inspiration behind the reforms was a paper written in 1985.

4) N-COUNT If you suddenly have an inspiration, you suddenly think of an idea of what to do or say.

Alison had an inspiration. `Wouldn't it be good if we made a tunnel out of hardboard'.


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  • Inspiration — Sf schöpferischer Einfall erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. īnspīrātio ( ōnis), eigentlich Einhauchen, Einatmen , einem Abstraktum zu l. īnspīrāre einflößen, hineinblasen , zu l. spīrāre blasen, wehen, hauchen und… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • inspiration — Inspiration. s. f. Action d inspirer, & la chose inspirée. Inspiration Divine, de Dieu, d enhaut. il luy vint une sainte inspiration. j ay eu une bonne inspiration …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • inspiration — c.1300, immediate influence of God or a god, especially that under which the holy books were written, from O.Fr. inspiracion inhaling, breathing in; inspiration, from L.L. inspirationem (nom. inspiratio), noun of action from pp. stem of L.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • inspiration — Inspiration, Instinctus, huius instinctus. Inspiration divine, Diuinus afflatus, siue inflatus …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

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  • Inspiration — (v. lat. Inspiratio), 1) das Einathmen, s.u. Athmen; daher Inspirationsmuskeln, die zum Einathmen dienenden Muskeln; 2) (gr. Theopneustie), die besondere Einwirkung Gottes, mittelst welcher er durch den Heiligen Geist die Apostel so unterstützte… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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