LekhoriLekhoriEager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.
An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”)...
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