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Ambition Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Ambition? [n] a strong drive for success [n] a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [v] have as one's ambition Synonyms \| Synonyms for Ambition: ambitiousness \| aspiration \| dream Related Terms \| Find terms related to Ambition: aim \| ambitiousness \| animus \| anxiety \| appetite \| aspiration \| avidity \| basis \| calling \| careerism \| catch \| cause \| climbing \| consideration \| counsel \| craving \| dearest wish \| desideration \| desideratum \| design \| desire \| determination \| dream \| drive \| eagerness \| effect \| energy \| enterprise \| enthusiasm \| fancy \| fixed purpose \| forbidden fruit \| function \| get-up-and-go \| glimmering goal \| goad \| go-ahead \| goal \| golden vision \| ground \| guiding light \| guiding star \| hope \| hunger \| idea \| ideal \| incentive \| initiative \| inspiration \| intendment \| intent \| intention \| keenness \| lodestar \| lodestone \| lofty ambition \| magnanimity \| magnet \| mainspring \| mark \| matter \| meaning \| mind \| motive \| nirvana \| nisus \| object \| objective \| plan \| plum \| point \| power-hunger \| pretension \| principle \| prize \| project \| proposal \| prospectus \| purpose \| push \| reason \| resolution \| resolve \| sake \| score \| social climbing \| source \| spirit \| spring \| spur \| status-seeking \| striving \| study \| target \| temptation \| thirst \| trophy \| ulterior motive \| vaulting ambition \| view \| vigor \| vocation \| will \| wish \| zeal See Also \| American Dream \| aspiration \| desire \| desire \| drive \| emulation \| nationalism \| power hunger \| status seeking \| want Ambition In Webster's Dictionary \Ambi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor? fr. ambire to go around. See {Ambient}, {Issue}.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton. 2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. --Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. --Burke. \Ambi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. --Trumbull.

Ambition Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ambition?

[n] a strong drive for success
[n] a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
[v] have as one's ambition

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambition: ambitiousness | aspiration | dream

Ambition In Webster's Dictionary

\Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor? fr. ambire
to go around. See {Ambient}, {Issue}.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
   any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]

         [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.

2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
   preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
   of something.

         Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By
         that sin fell the angels.             --Shak.

         The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
         thousand more acres.                  --Burke.


\Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]

      Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
      bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
                                               --Trumbull.

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