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ambition
(mass) | ambition
- úsilie, ctižiadostivosť, ambícia |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,ambice n: Zdeněk Brož |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,ctižádost n: |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,přání n: Zdeněk Brož |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,předmět ctižádosti n: |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,touha n: |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,úsilí n: |
Ambition
(gcide) | Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire
to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.
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2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. --Shak.
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The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke.
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Ambition
(gcide) | Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
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Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.
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ambition
(wn) | ambition
n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream]
2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition, ambitiousness]
v 1: have as one's ambition |
ambition
(devil) | AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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ambitions
(encz) | ambitions,ambice pl. Zdeněk Brož |
with ambition
(encz) | with ambition, adv: |
Ambition
(gcide) | Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire
to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.
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2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. --Shak.
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The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
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Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.
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Ambitionist
(gcide) | Ambitionist \Am*bi"tion*ist\, n.
One excessively ambitious. [R.]
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Ambitionless
(gcide) | Ambitionless \Am*bi"tion*less\, a.
Devoid of ambition. --Pollok.
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Unambition
(gcide) | Unambition \Un`am*bi"tion\, n.
The absence of ambition. [R.] --F. W. Newman.
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ambitionless
(wn) | ambitionless
adj 1: having little desire for success or achievement [syn:
unambitious, ambitionless] [ant: ambitious] |
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