About The Word Ambition
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Ambition
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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 \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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