inspiration
US /ˌɪnspəˈreʃən/
・UK /ˌɪnspə'reɪʃn/
B1
noun
- Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
- A good idea
- A sudden brilliant, creative, or timely idea.
- A person or thing that inspires.
other
- The power or urge that makes you want to do something, especially something creative
- The act of breathing in
- Someone or something that inspires
- The act of breathing in.
- The power to affect or suggest something.
- The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.
other
- A person, place, experience, etc., that makes someone want to do or create something.
- A sudden good idea.
Examples
She's been a great inspiration to me.
The movement draws much of its inspiration from the Greek philosophers. Many of us found inspiration in her teaching. Where did you get the inspiration for the book? Her latest book owes its inspiration to childhood memories.