aspiration
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4.2
- noun
- /ˌæspəˈreɪʃən/
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aspiración
- Having the aspiration to become a doctor motivates her to study hard every day.
- career aspirations
- educational aspirations
- occupational aspirations
You're sharing your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations, but also your struggles.
- You're sharing your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations, but also your struggles.
- The product has to be an expression of the customers aspirations, hopes or fears.
- And, you know, having it my way is a very noble aspiration, just unrealistic.
- One thing is don't fully link your wishes and your aspirations to another person.
- Or the the aspiration was to be with a record company.
- It's just the grandiose aspiration of an ordinary pessimist.
- So number one, what are your goals, dreams or aspirations?
- The per the most perfect form of being cannot know aspiration or need.
- We can, you know, we have these aspirations in these dreams.
- No worries, no aspirations, no ideas, no plans, no nothing.
Examples
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We have ambition, we have aspirations, we have dreams.
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They're a picture of an era, its hopes, its aspirations.
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How do you set these big aspirations for yourself?
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You can be happy in a moment, but to have aspirations and goals is what make us great.
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Would you like to share your aspirations with the class?
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Miles' aspirations keep getting bigger and bigger.
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We will be bold in backing the aspirations of working people.
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Stanford is our home and let us pursue our aspirations with hope.
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My focus has been on educational aspirations, but that's an ideal.
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We expected gender to have some influence on occupational aspirations, particularly in early adolescence.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.0
A hope or plan you strongly want to happen
∞
1.0
A result a person or group plans to achieve
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1.6
A goal a person or group tries to reach
310
2.8
A strong wish to achieve something important to you
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1.0
A goal someone wants to reach
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3.4
A strong desire or energy to do something
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5.5
A strong, lasting wish for something you want but cannot get
A strong desire to succeed
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.8
A lung infection caused when food, drink, or vomit enter the lungs
- Specialized
A medical procedure that ends an early pregnancy by sucking the unborn baby and placenta from the womb
How Ambitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aspiration comes from the old Latin word aspirare meaning 'to breathe toward', and it is like inspire which also has the 'breathe' idea. Think of 'breathing' your hopes toward the future — that is why an aspiration is a strong goal or ambition.