Definition of Ambitions

1. Noun. (plural of ambition) ¹

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Definition of Ambitions

1. ambition [v] - See also: ambition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambitions

ambisinister
ambisinistrous
ambisonic
ambisonics
ambisyllabicity
ambit
ambit claim
ambition
ambitioned
ambitioning
ambitionist
ambitionists
ambitionless
ambitionlessness
ambitions
ambitious
ambitiously
ambitiousness
ambitiousnesses
ambitransitive
ambitransitivity
ambits
ambitty
ambitus
ambituses
ambivalence
ambivalences
ambivalency
ambivalent

Literary usage of Ambitions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some Roads Towards Peace: A Report to the Trustees of the Endowment on by Charles William Eliot (1913)
"To answer these questions, it is indispensable to form a clear and just idea of Japanese desires and ambitions. The Japanese are not a numerous people, ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Through all his adventurous life, despite his literary ambitions, and beneath the polished exterior of a society man, Laurence Oliphant was ever of a deeply ..."

3. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1905)
"The ambitions Once possessed of the dignity and power of ... °'.n!e barb8" cials, the ambitions of the barbarians knew no bounds. ..."

4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE EUROPEAN WORLD HAD GROWN TOO SMALL FOR THEIR Ambitions. IT WAS THE TIME OF THE GREAT VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY THE Crusades had been a lesson in the liberal ..."

5. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"Such was the inglorious termination of the swart ambitions of the priest-ridden Louis xiv., and the brutal and merciless inspirations of Count Frontenac, ..."

6. China at the Conference: A Report by Westel W[oodbury] Willoughby (1922)
"China's Weakness and Japan's Ambitions. Two elements united to raise a serious international situation in the Far East. Upon the one hand was China with its ..."

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