Ambition æmˈbɪʃn Noun Fulfilled Lifelong Burning Study Medicine

• she had fulfilled her lifelong ambition.
• his burning ambition was to study medicine.
• political/artistic/career ambitions
• at last he had realized his life's ambition.

ambition

1. something that you want to do or achieve very much
• She had fulfilled her lifelong ambition.
• His burning ambition was to study medicine.
• political/artistic/career ambitions
• At last he had realized his life's ambition.
• He had only one ambition in life.
• the country's nuclear ambitions (= plans to develop nuclear weapons)
• She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.

Extra Examples

• This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions.
• He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated.
• the company's global ambitions
• Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest.
2. the desire or strength of mind to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.
• She was driven by personal ambition.
• She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.

Extra Examples

• His friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition.
• He was a young man with the ambition to succeed in his chosen career.
• She's a woman of driving ambition.
• He has no ambition.

Word Origin

• Middle English: via Old French from Latin ambitio(n-), from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’.