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Another word for ambition

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Noun

  1. A strong desire to achieve something

    See also:

    desire

  2. What one intends to do or achieve

    Idioms:
    See also:

    purpose

    planned

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Another word for ambition

Noun

  1. Eager desire

    Antonyms:

  2. The object of desire

    See also:

    purpose

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • My ambition is far different than yours.

  • It is a tale of ambition and then of guilt.

  • Anyone else with have a grain of ambition would see them as a tool.

  • The Roman nobility, resting wholly on sufferance, was overthrown by the ambition of one of its own members.

  • He suspected Sirian was Memon's spy and couldn't help but wonder if Memon understood how deep ambition ran in a man like Sirian.

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