Definitions for ambition

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ambition am·bi·tion

Spelling: [am-bish-uh n]

IPA: /æmˈbɪʃ ən/

Ambition is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in ambition (abiimnot).

Definitions for ambition

noun

1. an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment:
2. the object, state, or result desired or sought after:
3. desire for work or activity; energy:

verb (used with object)

1. to seek after earnestly; aspire to.

Origin of ambition

1300-50; Middle English ambicio(u)n (Middle French) Latin ambitiōn- (stem of ambitiō), equivalent to amb- ambi- + -i- go + -t- past participle suffix + -iōn-

Examples for ambition

No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.

Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

The first was addressed to the fears of the Athenians, the second to their ambition.

It was once my ambition to visit one by one every noteworthy spot in France.

She had won her ambition of years, revenge on the man who had sent her to prison.

But ambition is foreign to the Shakespeare-Hamlet nature, so the poet does not employ it.

And it led him in his teenage years to declare his ambition to become a cop.

Reid planted a flag, ready to make his mark in the world of whisky, backed by ambition and a gorgeous piece of land.

He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu.

The other narrative is of mobility in the service of ambition.