[
UK
/æmbˈɪʃən/
]
[ US /æmˈbɪʃən/ ]
[ US /æmˈbɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
-
a cherished desire
his ambition is to own his own business - a strong drive for success
VERB
- have as one's ambition
How To Use ambition In A Sentence
- Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
- The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence.
- Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
- She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
- She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.
- Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
- It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
- This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
- She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
- A rare total eclipse of the moon will make your emotions a useful bit tougher and ambitions stronger. The Sun