ambitions
- 1Plural of ambition.
His political ambitions eventually cost him several old friendships.
The young architect set aside her grander ambitions to take steady work.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable meanings: ambitions are objects of desire, the things one hopes to win, as in political ambitions or grander ambitions. Ambition as a personal drive, close to motivation, is uncountable. So a driven person has a lot of ambition, not a lot of ambitions. The same spelling also serves the rare verb ambition, meaning 'to covet' or 'to seek after eagerly.'
ambitions is a form of ambition
ambition, noun: An eager, sometimes excessive desire for success, power, honor, or fame, and to distinguish oneself from other people. Full entry
- Forms
- ambitionambitions plural
- Spelling
- ambition → ambitions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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