ambition

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.

   “My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.”

2. isim An object of an ardent desire.

   “My ambition is to own a helicopter.”

3. isim A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. isim A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. isim The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

   “I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]”

6. fiil To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

   “Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.”