ambitions

Noun

ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions)

1. 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.
   • My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.
2. (countable) 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. (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
   • I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 22

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