ambition
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
Example
“My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.”
Other meanings
An object of an ardent desire.
“My ambition is to own a helicopter.”
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
Related words
- ambitionate
- ambitionize
- ambitionless
- nonambition
- overambition
- unambition
- underambition
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "ambitiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ambition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.