Ambition æmˈbɪʃn Noun Bre Lifelong Political/Literary/Sporting Achieved Famous

• it had been her lifelong ambition.
• political/literary/sporting ambitions
• she never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
• his burning ambition was to study medicine.

ambition

1. something that you want to do or achieve very much
• It had been her lifelong ambition.
• political/literary/sporting ambitions
• She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
• His burning ambition was to study medicine.
2. the desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.
• motivated by personal ambition
• She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.

Extra Examples

• At last he had realized his life’s ambition.
• He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated.
• He had only one ambition in life.
• He has no ambition.
• He’s got little ambition.
• Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest.
• She’s a woman of driving ambition.
• This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions.
• the company’s global ambitions
• He was a young man with the ambition to succeed in his chosen career.
• His friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition.

Word Origin

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