Usually means: Intense, deep enthusiasm or desire.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word passion:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. passion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passion, the Passion, the passion: Merriam-Webster
  3. passion, passion, the Passion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. passion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. passion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Passion, passion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Passion, passion: Wordnik
  8. passion, the Passion, the passion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. passion: Wiktionary
  10. passion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. passion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. passion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Passion, passion: Dictionary.com
  14. passion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. passion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. P.A.S.S.I.O.N. (song), Passion (Anaal Nathrakh album), Passion (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Passion (Christianity), Passion (Geri Halliwell album), Passion (Hikaru Utada song), Passion (In-Grid album), Passion (Jennifer Rush album), Passion (Kate novel), Passion (Lady Saw album), Passion (Lee Jung-hyun album), Passion (Murray Head album), Passion (Pendragon album), Passion (Peter Gabriel album), Passion (Regina Belle album), Passion (Robin Trower album), Passion (Rod Stewart song), Passion (Steve Laury album), Passion (The Flirts song), Passion (Utada Hikaru song), Passion (band), Passion (disambiguation), Passion (emotion), Passion (film), Passion (music), Passion (musical), Passion (novel), Passion (play), Passion (rapper), Passion, The Passion (Milton), The Passion (Netherlands), The Passion (TV serial), The Passion (TV series), The Passion (U.S.), The Passion (U.S. TV special), The Passion (disambiguation), The Passion (franchise), The Passion (novel), The Passion, The passion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Passion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. passion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. passion: Rhymezone
  20. passion, passion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. passion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. passion: FreeDictionary.org
  23. passion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The Passion, passion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. passion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. passion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. passion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. passion: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Passion (disambiguation), The Passion, passion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Passion (disambiguation), Passion (play), The Passion, passion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passion: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Passion: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. passion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the passion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See passioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A true desire sustained or prolonged.
noun:  Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
noun:  Fervor, determination.
noun:  An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
noun:  Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
noun:  (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
noun:  A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
noun:  (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
noun:  (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
noun:  (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
noun:  (obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
noun:  (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
verb:  (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
verb:  (transitive) To give a passionate character to.
noun:  (Christianity) The sufferings of Jesus Christ from the night of the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.

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