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{
"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."
}