Ambition

n.	1.	The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. - Milton.
	2.	An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. - Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. - Burke.
v. t.	1.	To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. - Trumbull.

Noun	1.	ambition - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" Synonyms: aspiration, dream
	2.	ambition - a strong drive for success Synonyms: ambitiousness
Verb	1.	ambition - have as one's ambition

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