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  • Ambition — • The undue craving for honor Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ambition     Ambition     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • ambition — ambition, aspiration, pretension mean strong desire for advancement. Ambition has personal advancement or preferment as its end; it may be praiseworthy but is sometimes inordinate {ambition for fame} {ambition to hold office} {Iambition to… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • ambition — 01. His greatest [ambition] is to play in a symphony orchestra. 02. He will never amount to anything in life because he lacks the [ambition] to work hard. 03. She is a very [ambitious] person, and will do anything to achieve success. 04. If Apple …   Grammatical examples in English

  • ambition — noun 1 strong desire to be successful ADJECTIVE ▪ driving (esp. BrE), great, naked ▪ She s a woman of driving ambition. ▪ personal VERB + AMBITION …   Collocations dictionary

  • ambition — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin ambition , ambitio, literally, act of soliciting for votes, from ambire Date: 14th century 1. a. an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power b. desire to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • ambition — am|bi|tion [æmˈbıʃən] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: ambitio, from ambire; AMBIENT] 1.) a strong desire to achieve something achieve/fulfil/realize an ambition ▪ She fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run the 10,000 metres… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • ambition — [[t]æmbɪ̱ʃ(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ ambitions 1) N COUNT: oft N to inf If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it. His ambition is to sail round the world... He harboured ambitions of becoming a Tory MP. Syn …   English dictionary

  • ambition — [14] Like ambient, ambition comes ultimately from the Latin compound verb ambīre ‘go round’ (formed from the prefix ambi , as in AMBIDEXTROUS, and the verb īre ‘go’, which also gave English exit, initial, and itinerant). But while ambient, a 16th …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • ambition — noun 1 (U) determination to be successful, rich, powerful etc: Your problem is you have no ambition. 2 (C) a strong desire to achieve something: My ambition is to become a pilot …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • ambition — /æmˈbɪʃən / (say am bishuhn) noun 1. an eager desire for distinction, preferment, power, or fame. 2. the object desired or sought after: the crown was her ambition. 3. desire for work or activity; energy. –verb (t) 4. Obsolete to desire strongly; …  

  • have — verb Have is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑hotel, ↑library, ↑mixture, ↑patient, ↑room, ↑sentence, ↑tape, ↑word Have is used with these nouns as the object: ↑A level, ↑ability, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

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