(~s)
1.
Inspiration is a feeling of enthusiasm you get from someone or something, which gives you new and creative ideas.
My ~ comes from poets like Baudelaire and Jacques Prevert...
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2.
If you describe someone or something good as an ~, you mean that they make you or other people want to do or achieve something.
Powell’s unusual journey to high office is an ~ to millions...
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3.
If something or someone is the ~ for a particular book, work of art, or action, they are the source of the ideas in it or act as a model for it.
India’s myths and songs are the ~ for her books...
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4.
If you suddenly have an ~, you suddenly think of an idea of what to do or say.
Alison had an ~.
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