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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
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intention
English
Alternative forms
- entention (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intention, entention, from Old French entencion, from Latin intentio, intentionem. Compare intent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t?n??n/
- Hyphenation: in?ten?tion
- Rhymes: -?n??n
- Homophone: intension
Noun
intention (countable and uncountable, plural intentions)
- The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
- a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson
- Hell is paved with good intentions.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson
- (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
- , I.iii.3:
- cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
- , I.iii.3:
- A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
- it is attention : when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study
- (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
- 1732, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:
- In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; […].
- 1732, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:
- (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
- (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
- 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health, p.49:
- When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
- 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health, p.49:
Synonyms
- (purpose behind a specific action): See also Thesaurus:intention
Derived terms
- counter-intention
- intentional
- secondary intention
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions
- well-intentioned
Related terms
- intend
- intent
- well-intended
Translations
Verb
intention (third-person singular simple present intentions, present participle intentioning, simple past and past participle intentioned)
- Intend
Translations
References
- intention at OneLook Dictionary Search
- intention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Finnish
Noun
intention
- Genitive singular form of intentio.
French
Etymology
From Middle French entention, from Old French entencion, borrowed from Latin intenti?, intenti?nem. Respelled intention in Middle French to more closely match the Classical Latin form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.t??.sj??/
Noun
intention f (plural intentions)
- intention
Derived terms
Further reading
- “intention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
intention f (plural intentions)
- Alternative form of entention
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