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ambition
English
Etymology
From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambiti? (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambi? (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æm?b?.??n/
Noun
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 literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:ambition.
Related terms
- ambience
- ambient
- ambit
- ambitious
- ambitionist
Translations
Verb
ambition (third-person singular simple present ambitions, present participle ambitioning, simple past and past participle ambitioned)
- To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
- 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus
- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
- 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus
Further reading
- ambition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ambition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Danish
Noun
ambition c
- ambition
Declension
Related terms
- ambitiøs
Further reading
- “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Finnish
Noun
ambition
- Genitive singular form of ambitio.
French
Etymology
From Latin ambiti?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.bi.sj??/
Noun
ambition f (plural ambitions)
- ambition (feeling)
Related terms
- ambitieux
- ambitionner
Further reading
- “ambition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
ambition c
- en ambition
Declension
Related terms
- ambitiös
ambition From the web:
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daydream
English
Etymology
day +? dream
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de?d?i?m/
- enPR: d?'dr?m?
Noun
daydream (plural daydreams)
- A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
- Coordinate terms: woolgathering, brown study, castles in Spain
Translations
Verb
daydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)
- To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!
Translations
See also
- daymare
- dream
- nightmare
- REM
daydream From the web:
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- what daydreams say about you
- what's daydream on android
- what's daydreaming like
- what daydream mean in arabic
- what daydream does
- what's daydreaming in spanish
- what's daydreaming in french
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