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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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ambition is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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