Usually means: Stimulation of mind to create.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inspiration: Merriam-Webster
  2. inspiration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inspiration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inspiration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inspiration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inspiration, inspiration: Wordnik
  7. inspiration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inspiration: Wiktionary
  9. inspiration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inspiration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inspiration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inspiration: Dictionary.com
  13. inspiration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inspiration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inspiration (Eddie Henderson album), Inspiration (Elkie Brooks Album), Inspiration (Elkie Brooks album), Inspiration (Maze album), Inspiration (Tammy Wynette album), Inspiration (William Hung album), Inspiration (Yngwie J. Malmsteen album), Inspiration (Yngwie Malmsteen album), Inspiration (car), Inspiration (disambiguation), Inspiration (sculpture), Inspiration, The Inspiration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inspiration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inspiration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inspiration: Rhymezone
  19. Inspiration (f), inspiration, inspiration (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inspiration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inspiration: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inspiration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inspiration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inspiration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspiration: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inspiration (album), Inspiration (religion), inspiration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inspiration (album), Inspiration (religion), inspiration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. inspiration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Inspiration (album), Inspiration (religion), inspiration: Medical dictionary
  5. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspiration: Idioms

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inspiration: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Inspiration: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspiration: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
noun:  (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
noun:  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
noun:  The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun:  A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun:  A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

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