Found 3 items, similar to ambition.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: ambition ambisi, berambisi, hasrat
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ambition ambition n 1: a cherished desire; “his ambition is to own his own business” [syn: aspiration, dream] 2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambitiousness] v : have as one's ambition
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ambition Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. [1913 Webster] Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. --Burke. [1913 Webster] Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] [1913 Webster] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]