Ambition Definition

ăm-bĭshən
ambitions
noun
ambitions
An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.
American Heritage
A strong desire to gain a particular objective; specif., the drive to succeed, or to gain fame, power, wealth, etc.
Webster's New World
The object or goal desired.
Her ambition is the presidency.
American Heritage
The objective strongly desired.
Webster's New World
Desire for exertion or activity; energy.
Had no ambition to go dancing.
American Heritage
verb
To be ambitious for.
Webster's New World

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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Other Word Forms of Ambition

Noun

Singular:
ambition
Plural:
ambitions

Origin of Ambition

  • From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitio (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English ambicioun excessive desire for honor, power, or wealth from Old French ambition from Latin ambitiō ambitiōn- from ambitus past participle of ambīre to go around (for votes) ambient

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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