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English Dictionary: ambition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambition n a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" Synonym(s): ambition, aspiration, dream a strong drive for success Synonym(s): ambition, ambitiousness v have as one's ambition
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. --Trumbull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ambition \Ambi"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.] [I] used no ambition* to commend my deeds. --Milton. 2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. --Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. --Burke.