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# passion

«passion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very strong feeling, such as love, anger or excitement** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (passion, uncountable; a passion, passions); the Passion (church)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very strong feeling, such as love, anger or excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#m1)

2) A strong love or enthusiasm for an activity or subject: a passion for football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#m2)

3) (church) The Passion: the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross, remembered by Christians especially at Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school, people talk about their passions: hobbies and subjects they love. In stories, passion shows strong feeling: «she spoke with passion». In religious education and church life, the Passion is the story told on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, and in musical «Passions» by Bach.

### examples

- Her passion is horse riding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x1)
- He spoke with passion about saving the rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x2)
- Find your passion and practise it every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x3)
- Christians remember the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x4)
- Our choir sang music from Bach's St Matthew Passion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x5)
- Dad has a passion for old cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x6)
- The football fans sang with passion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x7)
- Her father flew into a passion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/#x8)

### note

Uncountable for the feeling, countable for a hobby or love (my passions). Adjective: passionate. Related: passion fruit (a fruit named after the Passion of Jesus because of its flower). The word comes from Latin «pati», to suffer.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «passion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/passion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.