ambition
US: /æmˈbɪʃən/
UK: /æmbˈɪʃən/
UK: /æmbˈɪʃən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
ambition /æm'biʃn/
- danh từ
- hoài bão, khát vọng
- lòng tham, tham vọng
Advanced English dictionary
doing sth)
1 [C] something that you want to do or achieve very much: She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer. + His burning ambition was to study medicine. + It had been her lifelong ambition. + political / literary / sporting ambitions
2 [U] the desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc: motivated by personal ambition + She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 hunger, thirst, craving, appetite, arrivisme:
John's relentless ambition may yet be his undoing.
2 drive, enterprise, energy, initiative, vigour, enthusiasm, zeal, avidity, Colloq get-up-and-go:
The company is seeking young men of ambition. You'll never get anywhere, Stewart, since you are totally lacking in ambition.
3 goal, object, aim, aspiration, hope, desire, dream, objective, wish, purpose:
It is Olivia's ambition to marry someone with a title.
Collocation dictionary
1 strong desire to be successful
ADJ.
driving, great, naked
She's a woman of driving ambition.
| personal
VERB + AMBITION
have
He's got little ambition.
| lack
AMBITION + VERB
burn
Ambition burned within her.
2 sth you very much want to have/do
ADJ.
big, burning, driving, great, high, main, overriding, ultimate
Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest.
| lifelong, life's, longstanding
At last he had realized his life's ambition.
| modest | personal | secret | youthful | frustrated, thwarted, unfulfilled
This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions.
| career, imperial/imperialist, literary, political, presidential, social, sporting, territorial
VERB + AMBITION
cherish, harbour, have, nurture
He had only one ambition in life.
| abandon, give up | achieve, fulfil, realize | limit, restrain | frustrate, thwart
He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated.
Concise English dictionary
ambitionsæm'bɪʃn
noun
+a cherished desire
+a strong drive for success
verb
+have as one's ambition
