(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you have an ~ to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
His ~ is to sail round the world...
= goal
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2.
Ambition is the desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
Even when I was young I never had any ~.
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