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{
"term": "ambitious",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "determined to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a fiercely ambitious young manager"
},
{
"text": "They were very ambitious for their children *(= they wanted them to be successful)*."
},
{
"text": "I am very ambitious. Nothing means more to me than winning."
},
{
"text": "I'm not ambitious enough to try for the top."
},
{
"text": "I've never been particularly ambitious."
},
{
"text": "She's a great student—dedicated, hardworking and ambitious."
},
{
"text": "The students are all ambitious to do well."
}
],
"topics": ["Success", "Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the government’s **ambitious plans** for social reform"
},
{
"text": "Jogging every morning? That’s very ambitious, isn’t it?"
},
{
"text": "Several interns will be working on three ambitious new projects."
},
{
"text": "Phases 2 and 3 seem overly ambitious."
},
{
"text": "The book is ambitious in scope."
}
],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["in"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃəs/",
"audio": "am/ambitious/ambitious__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃəs/",
"audio": "am/ambitious/ambitious__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French ambitieux or Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio, from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’."
}