It is Tom's ambition to go to the moon.
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Ambition
//æmˈbɪʃ.ən//
Synonyms for "ambition" (111 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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4 entriesRelated terms
5 entriescauses desire
14 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
7 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
103 translations across 46 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَطْمَح noun (desire)
Armenian
2 entries- փառասիրություն noun (desire)
- փառասիրություն noun (act of going about to solicit or obtain an object of desire)
Belarusian
3 entries- амбі́цыя noun (desire)
- амбі́цыя noun (personal quality)
- славалю́бства noun (personal quality)
Bulgarian
2 entries- амби́ция noun (desire)
- честолю́бие noun (desire)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- ambitzione noun (personal quality)
Catalan
3 entries- ambició noun (desire)
- ambició noun (object of desire)
- ambició noun (personal quality)
Cebuano
2 entries- ambisyon noun (desire)
- tinguha noun (desire)
Central Dusun
1 entries- iman-imanon noun (desire)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 奢望 noun (desire)
- 奢望 noun (personal quality)
- 志向 noun (desire)
- 志向 noun (object of desire)
Czech
4 entries- ambice noun (desire)
- ambice noun (object of desire)
- ctižádost noun (desire)
- ctižádost noun (object of desire)
Danish
1 entries- ambition noun (desire)
Dutch
2 entries- ambitie noun (desire)
- eerzucht noun (desire)
Esperanto
2 entries- ambicio noun (desire)
- gloramo noun (desire)
Finnish
4 entries- aloitekyky noun (personal quality)
- intohimo noun (object of desire)
- kunnianhimo noun (desire)
- pyrkimys noun (act of going about to solicit or obtain an object of desire)
French
1 entries- ambition noun (desire)
Galician
1 entries- ambición noun (desire)
Gallurese
1 entries- giuditzia noun (personal quality)
German
1 entries- Ehrgeiz noun (desire)
Greek
1 entries- φιλοδοξία noun (desire)
Hungarian
4 entries- ambíció noun (desire)
- ambíció noun (personal quality)
- becsvágy noun (desire)
- cél noun (object of desire)
Icelandic
1 entries- metnaður noun (desire)
Ilocano
1 entries- arapaap noun (desire)
Indonesian
1 entries- ambisi noun (desire)
Italian
1 entries- ambizione noun (personal quality)
Ivatan
1 entries- kagum noun (desire)
Japanese
4 entries- 野心 noun (desire)
- 野心 noun (personal quality)
- 野望 noun (desire)
- 野望 noun (personal quality)
Korean
2 entries- 야망 noun (desire)
- 야심 noun (desire)
Latin
1 entries- ambitiō noun (desire)
Latvian
1 entries- godkāre noun (desire)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Éiergäiz noun (desire)
Malay
1 entries- kesungguhan noun (desire)
Malayalam
4 entries- അഭിലാഷം noun (desire)
- അഭിലാഷം noun (object of desire)
- ലക്ഷ്യം noun (desire)
- ലക്ഷ്യം noun (personal quality)
Middle English
1 entries- ambicioun noun (desire)
Māori
2 entries- awhero noun (desire)
- hemonga noun (object of desire)
Persian
4 entries- آرزو noun (object of desire)
- اشتیاق noun (desire)
- اشتیاق noun (personal quality)
- خواهش noun (desire)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- Väanämungsjeist noun (desire)
- Väanämungsjeist noun (personal quality)
- Äwanämungsjeist noun (desire)
Polish
2 entries- ambicja noun (desire)
- ambicja noun (personal quality)
Portuguese
3 entries- ambição noun (desire)
- ambição noun (object of desire)
- ambição noun (personal quality)
Russian
4 entries- амби́ция noun (desire)
- амби́ция noun (personal quality)
- мечта́ noun (object of desire)
- цель noun (object of desire)
Sardinian
1 entries- ambitzione noun (personal quality)
Sassarese
1 entries- ambizioni noun (personal quality)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- ambicija noun (desire)
Spanish
4 entries- ambición noun (desire)
- ambición noun (object of desire)
- ambición noun (desire for another person to achieve these things)
- ambición noun (personal quality)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- ambisi noun (desire)
Swedish
3 entries- ambition noun (desire)
- ambition noun (object of desire)
- ambitionsnivå noun (personal quality)
Ukrainian
3 entries- амбі́ція noun (desire)
- амбі́ція noun (personal quality)
- честолю́бство noun (personal quality)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Sony inspires ambition among its employees.
Source: tatoeba (50748)
His ambition was blasted by these repeated failures.
Source: tatoeba (55287)
That politician is full of ambition.
Source: tatoeba (68044)
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