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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:
- what ambition mean
- what ambition does satan cherish
- what ambitions do you have
- what ambition in your life
- what ambition suits me
- what ambition should i choose
- what ambition is the best
- what does ambition mean
try
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?, IPA(key): /t?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic ???????????????????? (tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teran? (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”). Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.
Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).
Alternative forms
- trie (obsolete)
Verb
try (third-person singular simple present tries, present participle trying, simple past and past participle tried)
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
- To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
- (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- the wylde corne, beinge in shap and greatnesse lyke to the good, if they be mengled, with great difficultie will be tried out
- (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
- To extract wax from a honeycomb
- To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
- To test, to work out.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- To put to test.
- 1922, E. F. Benson, Miss Mapp, p. 89:
- “So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”
- 1922, E. F. Benson, Miss Mapp, p. 89:
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a):
- Mona: Try this vampire bolt on for size!
- Cedric: Why don't you try this alien bolt?
- 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a):
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (law) To put on trial.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- 1987, Hadi Khorsandi, trans. Ehssan Javan, “It Didn’t Quite Work Out—2” in The Ayatollah and I:
- I sit in front of the mirror and try myself. I am no impartial judge, otherwise I would have had myself executed several times over by now.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- To experiment, to strive.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- To work on something.
- (obsolete) To do; to fare.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want
Usage notes
- (to attempt): This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. Conjugations unmarked for tense can take and instead of to, for which also see Citations:try.
- (to make an experiment): This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
- See Appendix:English catenative verbs
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb try had the form triest, and had triedst for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form trieth was used.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to attempt): attempt, endeavor, fand, mint, take a run at, take a stab at
- (to taste, sample, etc): sample, taste
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
try (plural tries)
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- (American football) a field goal or extra point
Synonyms
- (an attempt): bash, go, stab, whirl
- (an act of tasting or sampling): sampling, taste, tasting
- (a score in rugby): touchdown (American football)
- (the point after touchdown): extra point (American football)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from Old French trié.
Adjective
try (comparative more try, superlative most try)
- (obsolete) Fine, excellent.
Anagrams
- Tyr
Cornish
Alternative forms
- (Standard Written Form) trei
- (Standard Written Form) tri
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Numeral
try
- (Standard Cornish) three
Related terms
- teyr
See also
- (cardinal number): Previous: dew. Next: peswar
Portuguese
Noun
try m (plural tries)
- try (a score in rugby)
- Synonym: ensaio
- (programming) try (block of code that may trigger exceptions)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /tr??/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /tri?/
Verb
try
- third-person singular present indicative/future of troi
Mutation
Westrobothnian
Numeral
try n
- neuter nominative/accusative of tri (“three”)
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