aspires
USuh-SPYRZ/əˈspaɪɚz/UKuh-SPY-uhz/əˈspaɪə(ɹ)z/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of aspire.
The young pianist aspires to perform at the world's great concert halls.
Every intern here aspires to a leadership role within the company.
Note
The present-tense form of a verb that today almost never takes a direct object. One aspires to something, either to a noun or to an infinitive. Older writing uses it more freely. In archaic, literary use, a spire or a flame that aspires simply rises or stands tall. In an obsolete transitive use, to aspire a height was to reach its top, with no preposition at all.
aspires is a form of aspire
aspire, verb: To have a strong hope or ambition of achieving something. Full entry
- Spelling
- aspire → aspires: add -s
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