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1. Oxford Dictionary

   pretension

   • IPA[prɪˈtɛnʃn]

   英式

   • n.
     a claim or assertion of a claim to something；a claim or aspiration to a particular quality

   • noun: pretension, plural noun: pretensions

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a claim or assertion of a claim to something his pretensions to the imperial inheritance all that we cannot tolerate is pretension to infallibility 同義詞 aspiration, claim, assertion, pretence, profession, ... 更多purporting
   • ▪ a claim or aspiration to a particular quality another ageing rocker with literary pretensions
   • 2. the use of affectation to impress; pretentiousness he spoke simply, without pretension 同義詞 pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, ... 更多artificiality, attitudinizing, airs, posing, posturing, showing off, hypocrisy, snobbery, show, flashiness, pomposity, pompousness, floweriness, grandiosity, grandness, grandiloquence, magniloquence, elaborateness, extravagance, heroics, flamboyance, ornateness, bombast, turgidity, rhetoric, pedantry, informalla-di-da, side, guyver, rarefustian, flatulence
3. • 更多解釋

   pretension

   • IPA[prēˈten(t)SH(ə)n]

   美式

   • n.
     a claim or assertion of a claim to something: we cannot tolerate pretension to infallibility their pretensions to culture

   Oxford American Dictionary

   pretension

   • IPA[prēˈten(t)SH(ə)n]

   美式

   • v.
     apply tension to (an object) during manufacture or prior to some other process: the safety system pretensions the seat belts

   Oxford American Dictionary

   pretension

   • IPA[prɪˈtɛnʃn]

   英式

   • v.
     apply tension to (an object) during manufacture or prior to some other process: the safety system pretensions the seat belts

   Oxford Dictionary