aspiration

1. 1.

   a will to succeed

   Broaderambition
2. 2.

   a cherished desire

   “his ambition is to own his own business”

   Synonymsambitiondream

   Broaderdesire

   NarrowerAmerican Dreamemulationnationalism
3. 3.

   a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath

   Broaderarticulation
4. 4.

   the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

   Synonymsinhalationinspirationintakebreathing in

   Broaderbreath

   Narrowergasppuff

   Part ofbreathing

Other forms of aspiration

plural

aspirations·

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 aspiration

What does aspiration mean?

aspiration means "a will to succeed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aspiration?

aspiration has 4 syllables: as-pi-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌæspɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for aspiration?

Close synonyms include ambition, dream, inhalation, inspiration, intake. 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 aspiration a common word?

aspiration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 aspiration?

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