passion project

[ pash-uhn proj-ekt ]

noun

1. a personally fulfilling activity or undertaking pursued in one’s leisure time for pleasure, personal growth, emotional satisfaction, creative expression, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of passion project¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Finally, after Coppola sold part of his wine business to finance his passion project, “Megalopolis” was reborn.

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Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and an unhinged Aubrey Plaza, the storied director’s latest passion project brings the heat of an event film to Cannes.

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The two-time Oscar winner, who played Montana rancher John Dutton III, left the hit drama last year amid reported tension with Sheridan, issues with the writing and conflicting plans for his passion project “Horizon.”

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McLeod was telling Nelson about a passion project he’d been working on, an audio tour guide of Old Pasadena.

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The longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker and TV writer-producer was also engaged in another kind of madness: trying to set up his own passion project, a small-screen show about a May-December romance.

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