AMBITION


Meaning of AMBITION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ æmbɪʃ(ə)n ]

( ambitions)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

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...

= goal

N-COUNT : oft N to-inf

2.

Ambition is the desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.

Even when I was young I never had any ambition.

N-UNCOUNT

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