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{
"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’."
}