hallucination

noun

/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃn/

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Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of hallucination and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned.

Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin hallucinatio(n-), from the verb hallucinari, from Greek alussein ‘be uneasy or distraught’.

单词	hallucination
释义	hallucination noun /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃn/ /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃn/ jump to other results [countable, uncountable] the fact of seeming to see or hear somebody/something that is not really there, especially because of illness or drugs to have hallucinations High temperatures can cause hallucination. She was admitted to hospital suffering from hallucinations. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective mild vivid auditory … verb + hallucination experience have suffer … See full entry [countable] something that is seen or heard when it is not really there Was the figure real or just a hallucination? Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective mild vivid auditory … verb + hallucination experience have suffer … See full entry Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of hallucination and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin hallucinatio(n-), from the verb hallucinari, from Greek alussein ‘be uneasy or distraught’.
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