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Ambition
/æmˈbɪ.ʃən/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Ambition"
- 1
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."
- 2
An object of an ardent desire.
"My ambition is to own a helicopter."
- 3
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- 4
A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- 1
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
"Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull."
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