ambition, aspiration, pretension mean strong desire for advancement. ambition applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire.

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AMBITION definition: 1. a strong wish to achieve something: 2. a strong wish to be successful, powerful, rich, etc…. Learn more.

Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. It's what Macbeth had too much of, and what slackers have too little of. If a person has ambition, the goal is usually wealth, power, or fame. This Middle English word is derived from Latin ambitiō, from ambīre "to go around or about."

If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it. His ambition is to sail round the world. He harboured ambitions of becoming a Tory MP.

An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power. b. The object or goal desired: Her ambition is the presidency. 2. Desire for exertion or activity; energy: had no ambition to go dancing.

ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions) (uncountable, countable) 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.

Ambition means a strong desire to achieve power, wealth, or other goal/aim. Learn how to foster a healthy sense of ambition.