ambition

Meaning of ambition

noun
  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.
  5. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
verb
  1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
    Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.

Information about ambition

  • The plural form of ambition is: ambitions.
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Hyphenation of ambition

am-bi-tion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • ambition is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

ambition synonyms

Meaning aspiration:

aspiration, dream

Meaning ambitiousness:

ambitiousness

Translation of ambition

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