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{
"term": "ambition",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "something that you want to do or achieve very much",
"sensetop": "ambition of being/doing something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She had fulfilled her **lifelong ambition**."
},
{
"text": "His burning ambition was to study medicine."
},
{
"text": "political/artistic/career ambitions"
},
{
"text": "At last he had realized his **life's ambition**."
},
{
"text": "He had only one **ambition in life**."
},
{
"text": "the country's **nuclear ambitions** *(= plans to develop nuclear weapons)*"
},
{
"text": "She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.",
"contextForm": "ambition of being/doing something"
},
{
"text": "This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions."
},
{
"text": "He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated."
},
{
"text": "the company's global ambitions"
},
{
"text": "Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "burning", "driving"],
"verb + ambition": ["cherish", "harbour/harbor", "have"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the desire or strength of mind to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was driven by personal ambition."
},
{
"text": "She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition."
},
{
"text": "His friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition."
},
{
"text": "He was a young man with the ambition to succeed in his chosen career."
},
{
"text": "She's a woman of driving ambition."
},
{
"text": "He has no ambition."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["driving", "great", "naked"],
"verb + ambition": ["have", "lack"],
"ambition + verb": ["burn"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃn/",
"audio": "am/ambition/ambition__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃn/",
"audio": "am/ambition/ambition__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin ambitio(n-), from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’."
}