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Definition of Aspiring
1. Adjective. Desiring or striving for recognition or advancement.
Definition of Aspiring
1. a. That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind.
Definition of Aspiring
1. Verb. (present participle of aspire) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aspiring
1. aspire [v] - See also: aspire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspiring
Literary usage of Aspiring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"Into this overheated atmosphere conies Pliocene man in the person of Steve
O'Valley, bred in an orphan asylum, and aspiring to the hand of the Gorgeous Girl ..."
2. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch, John Aikin (1811)
"... subterranean world, The expanding earthquake, that resistless shakes aspiring
cities from their solid base, And buries mountains in the flaming gulf. ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"Who can wish that he had been ? that that bright, pure, aspiring spirit should
have been dulled by distress or torn with agony ? It might have lent a deeper ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"The varied influences of man's environment conspire with the aspiring instincts
of his in most soul to conduct him constantly out of the imperfect toward ..."
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