Synonym: ambitiousness, aspiration, dream. Similar words: ambitious, exhibition, prohibition, combination, edition, position, addition, tradition. Meaning: [æm'bɪʃn] n. 1. a cherished desire 2. a strong drive for success. v. have as one's ambition.
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241. Max is a classic example of a man who can't control his ambition.
242. To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths, nomatterhow underhand or devious they might be.
243. This is a high ambition for a book targeted at the general reader.
244. She wondered about his ambitions, beyond his ambition to love her for ever, as he claimed.
245. The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape. Eric Hoffer
246. I wanted to be a coal miner, and that was a serious ambition, too.
247. I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon(sentencedict.com), determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver.
248. His ambition was to eat as little as possible, and in this way to stave off his hunger.
249. Such subtleties should be one ambition of the museum of modern art.
250. What can you do with a kid who has no ambition?
251. They were a bad influence, Paquita said: a decadent life and no ambition.
252. It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
253. That is a very strange ambition for a young man.
254. It's taken artist, Chris Fiddes, 60 days to complete, the realisation of a lifelong ambition.
255. His original ambition was to be a painter, and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith's College School of Art.
256. Most historians see Montgomerie as a rather unstable figure, motivated more by ambition than political principle.
257. With a shrug, he shrugged off alien concepts such as responsibility, maturity, ambition and commitment.
258. Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
259. She says it's been a lifelong ambition to work with horses.
260. But, even at 40, he still burns with ambition to dump Indy racing and make a Grand Prix come-back.
261. Whatever else persuaded MacDonald to head a National Government, it was not premeditated ambition.
262. Getting to the top hadn't been easy, in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
263. Models Black kids are not totally without ambition: they have several guides to follow.
264. The analyst was a prisoner of his own narrowly focused ambition.
265. The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. Rabindranath Tagore
266. It's also a personal ambition to go around the circuit.
267. I remember good learning and running gags and reasonable ambition.
268. He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition.
269. This ambition becomes more predominant in his character not long after his encounter with the witches.
270. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. Joseph Addison
More similar words: ambitious, exhibition, prohibition, combination, edition, position, addition, tradition, coalition, munitions, condition, additional, litigation, in addition, transition, competition, conditions, definition, expedition, composition, mitigation, opposition, traditional, practitioner, recognition, acquisition, in addition to, traditionally, predisposition, unconditionally.