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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

inspiration

Pronunciation / Transliteration: inspiration

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inspiration/ˌɪn.spəˈreɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"La nature est une grande source d'inspiration."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.

    "Muted colors provided the inspiration for her latest collection."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin inspirationem, meaning 'a blowing into or breathing into', which stems from the classical Latin inspirare (in- 'into' + spirare 'to breathe'). By the late 14th century, the term evolved from its original theological sense of divine breath entering the soul to encompass the stimulation of the mind, intellect, or creative faculties.

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