Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
| Käännös | Ääninäyte | |
|---|---|---|
| Substantiivit | ||
| 1. | ambition {f} |
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| 2. | souhait {m} |
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Verbit
- To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Esimerkit
- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | ambitioned |
| Imperfekti | ambitioned |
| Partisiipin preesens | ambitioning |
| Monikko | ambitions |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ambitions |