ambition
/æmˈbɪ.ʃən/
Misollar
- Moments like this fuel my ambition.
- There's nothing wrong with ambition.
- Don't scale back your ambition.
- What's your ambition in Kabylie?
- I have a lot of ambition.
- That's my life's ambition.
ot noun
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Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
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An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
fe’l verb
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To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.