transcription, транскрипция: [ prɪtenʃ(ə)n ]
( pretensions)
1.
If you say that someone has pretensions , you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...
We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
N-VAR [ disapproval ]
2.
If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing.
The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status...
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl , N to n / -ing , N to-inf