different between ambition vs disposition

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)

1. (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

2. (countable) An object of an ardent desire.

3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. (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)

1. 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.

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

1. ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiøs

Further reading

• “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Finnish

Noun

ambition

1. Genitive singular form of ambitio.

French

Etymology

From Latin ambiti?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bi.sj??/

Noun

ambition f (plural ambitions)

1. 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

1. en ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiös

English

Alternative forms

• dispotion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English disposicioun, from Middle French disposition, from Latin dispositi?nem, accusative singular of dispositi?, from disp?n?; analysable as dispose +? -ition. Doublet of dispositio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?s.p??z?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?s.p??z?.??n/

Noun

disposition (countable and uncountable, plural dispositions)

1. The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:
   1. Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:
      1. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
      2. Control over something, especially with regard to disposing or dispensing with an action item (disposal of a concern, allocation of disbursed funds) or control over the arrangement or placement of certain things.

      3. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.

         Synonyms: assignment, conveyance

      4. (law) Final decision or settlement.

      5. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment, especially after emergency triage, first line treatment, or surgery; the choice made for the next venue of care.

      6. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.

   2. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.

   3. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

disposition (third-person singular simple present dispositions, present participle dispositioning, simple past and past participle dispositioned)

1. To remove or place in a different position.

Related terms

Danish

Noun

disposition c (singular definite dispositionen, plural indefinite dispositioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “disposition” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

disposition

1. Genitive singular form of dispositio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispositi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

disposition f (plural dispositions)

1. arrangement; layout
2. disposal; the ability or authority to use something
3. step; arrangement; measure
4. disposition; tendency

Related terms

• disposer
• dispositif

Descendants

• ? Romanian: dispozi?ie

Further reading

• “disposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispositi?.

Noun

disposition f (oblique plural dispositions, nominative singular disposition, nominative plural dispositions)

1. arrangement; layout