Synonyms for ambitions
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : am-bish-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : æmˈbɪʃ ən |
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Définition of ambitions
Origin :- mid-14c., from Middle French ambition or directly from Latin ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around" (see ambient).
- Rarely used in the literal sense in English, where it carries the secondary Latin sense of "eager or inordinate desire of honor or preferment." In early use always pejorative, of inordinate or overreaching desire; ambition was grouped with pride and vainglory.
- noun strong desire for success
- noun something desired
- Well, I don't, of course, tell any of the men about my ambitions.
- Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various
- He was much pleased with her appearance and quite interested in her ambitions.
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- It means that living there, in life you bury yourself, your hopes, your ambitions.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- Never had he so opened his heart in regard to his own ideals of art, his own ambitions.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- At this time my ambitions were for a newspaper career, and I thought I was succeeding.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- He went to lay the cornerstone of the proud edifice of his ambitions.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
- Day after day he came; they told their love, their hopes, their ambitions.
- Extract from : « The Fifth String  » by John Philip Sousa
- It had been different had I been young with ambitions that craved satisfying.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- Singers were arriving from abroad and brought with them their ambitions.
- Extract from : « Annals of Music in America » by Henry Charles Lahee
- Have you none of the ambitions that most women seem to have?
- Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
Antonyms for ambitions
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