ambition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Italic *ejō
Proto-Italic *eō
Latin eō
Latin ambiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ambitiōder.
Old French ambitionbor.
Middle English ambicioun
English ambition
From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: ambitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ambitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ambitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ambitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ambitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.
The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
One is aſtoniſhed hovv ſuch a ſmall ſpot could furniſh Men ſufficient to ſacrifice to the pitiful Ambition of poſſeſſing five or ſix thouſand more Acres, or tvvo or three more Villages: […]
gloss: An object of an ardent desire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: My ambition is to own a helicopter.
gloss: A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]
gloss: To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
pos: verb
examples: Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Related words: ambience
ambient
ambit
ambitious
ambitionist
Derived words: ambitionate
ambitionize
ambitionless
nonambition
overambition
unambition
underambition
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَطْمَح
roman: maṭmaḥ
lang: Armenian
word: փառասիրություն
roman: pʻaṙasirutʻyun
lang: Belarusian
word: амбі́цыя
roman: ambícyja
lang: Bulgarian
word: амби́ция
roman: ambícija
lang: Bulgarian
word: честолю́бие
roman: čestoljúbie
lang: Catalan
word: ambició
lang: Cebuano
word: ambisyon
lang: Cebuano
word: tinguha
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奢望
roman: shēwàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 抱負 /抱负
roman: bàofù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 志向
roman: zhìxiang
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 志氣 /志气
roman: zhìqì
lang: Czech
word: ctižádost
lang: Czech
word: ambice
lang: Danish
word: ambition
lang: Central Dusun
word: iman-imanon
lang: Dutch
word: eerzucht
lang: Dutch
word: ambitie
lang: Esperanto
word: gloramo
lang: Esperanto
word: ambicio
lang: Finnish
word: kunnianhimo
lang: French
word: ambition
lang: Galician
word: ambición
lang: German
word: Ehrgeiz
lang: Greek
word: φιλοδοξία
roman: filodoxía
lang: Hungarian
word: ambíció
lang: Hungarian
word: becsvágy
lang: Hungarian
word: nagyravágyás
lang: Hungarian
word: nagyratörés
lang: Icelandic
word: metnaður
lang: Ilocano
word: arapaap
lang: Indonesian
word: ambisi
lang: Ivatan
word: kagum
lang: Japanese
word: 野望
roman: yabō
lang: Japanese
word: 野心
roman: yashin
lang: Korean
word: 야망
roman: yamang
lang: Korean
word: 야심
roman: yasim
lang: Latin
word: ambitiō
lang: Latvian
word: godkāre
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Éiergäiz
lang: Malay
word: kesungguhan
lang: Malayalam
word: അഭിലാഷം
roman: abhilāṣaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: ലക്ഷ്യം
roman: lakṣyaṁ
lang: Māori
word: awhero
lang: Middle English
word: ambicioun
lang: Persian
word: اشتیاق
roman: eštiyâq
lang: Persian
word: خواهش
roman: xâheš
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Väanämungsjeist
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Äwanämungsjeist
lang: Polish
word: ambicja
lang: Portuguese
word: ambição
lang: Russian
word: амби́ция
roman: ambícija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ambicija
lang: Spanish
word: ambición
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: ambisi
lang: Swedish
word: ambition
lang: Ukrainian
word: амбі́ція
roman: ambícija
lang: Catalan
word: ambició
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 志向
roman: zhìxiàng
lang: Czech
word: ctižádost
lang: Czech
word: ambice
lang: Finnish
word: intohimo
lang: Hungarian
word: cél
lang: Hungarian
word: vágy
lang: Malayalam
word: അഭിലാഷം
roman: abhilāṣaṁ
lang: Māori
word: hemonga
lang: Persian
word: آرزو
roman: ârezu
lang: Portuguese
word: ambição
lang: Russian
word: цель
roman: celʹ
lang: Russian
word: мечта́
roman: mečtá
lang: Spanish
word: ambición
lang: Swedish
word: ambition