ambition

1. 1.

   have as one's ambition

   Broaderdesire

Other forms of ambition

plural

ambitions·

past tense

ambitioned·

present participle

ambitioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ambition

What does ambition mean?

ambition means "a cherished desire". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ambition?

ambition has 3 syllables: am-bit-ion. The stress falls on "bit". In IPA it is /æmˈbɪʃən/.

What is another word for ambition?

Close synonyms include aspiration, dream, ambitiousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambition a common word?

ambition is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ambition?

3 words rhyme with ambition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.