nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a very strong belief or feeling about something
adjectives
great passion
The orchestra plays with great passion.
strong passions
In this area, the issue has already stirred strong passions.
verbs
arouse/stir passions (=cause strong feelings in people)
The case aroused passions throughout the country.
phrases
passions run high (=people are very excited, angry, or upset)
The judge's decision is expected today and passions are running high.
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: a very strong liking for something
adjectives
a great passion
Birds were my great passion.
a lifelong passion
His lifelong passion for natural history began in childhood.
a consuming passion (=a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in)
The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
verbs
have a passion for something
She had a passion for music.
indulge your passion for something (=do something that you enjoy doing very much)
The money enabled him to indulge his passion for horses.
Examples from the Corpus
passion• Man himself has a passion for power that brings on a strange and noxiousmalady.• She hated her ex-husband with a passion.• He throws himself into his art with a creativepassion.• Despite his passion for Carolyn, Mark never seriously considered leaving his wife for her.• Stewart was a versatileartist; painting was his lifelongpassion and his pictures can serve as a guide to his career.• a sermon full of passion and inspiration• Wives in the land of the Rising Sunenjoy half as many nights of passion as their Western sisters.• Acting is Turturro's passion.• He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.• Who will protectminorities against the passions and tyranny of the popularmajority?• All the passion in their marriage has died.• I remember my teacher dutifully emphasizing that the two were, indeed, married before they consummated their passion.• There is a commonprejudice in this country that Italians display their passions more readily than the English.• In 1987, the consensus is that everything must be stamped with soul and franked with passion.• All of this may help to explain why I support with passion the reforms proposed by David Blunkett earlier this week.
passion for• the Finns' passion forsaunas• Her novel is about a man's passion for a woman who is already married.