I aspire to fame.
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Aspire
//əˈspaɪɚ//
Synonyms for "aspire" (99 found)
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35 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- домогвам се verb (to hope or dream)
- стремя се verb (to hope or dream)
Catalan
1 entries- aspirar verb (to hope or dream)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 渴望 verb (to hope or dream)
- 熱望 /热望 verb (to hope or dream)
Dutch
2 entries- ambiëren verb (to hope or dream)
- nastreven verb (to hope or dream)
Esperanto
1 entries- aspiri verb (to hope or dream)
Finnish
2 entries- aikoa verb (to hope or dream)
- pyrkiä verb (to hope or dream)
Galician
1 entries- aspirar verb (to hope or dream)
German
2 entries- hoffen verb (to hope or dream)
- streben verb (to hope or dream)
Hebrew
1 entries- שָׁאַף verb (to hope or dream)
Italian
1 entries- aspirare verb (to hope or dream)
Japanese
3 entries- 切望する verb (to hope or dream)
- 希求する verb (to hope or dream)
- 熱望する verb (to hope or dream)
Latin
2 entries- affectō verb (to hope or dream)
- aspīrō verb (to hope or dream)
Māori
4 entries- hōkaka verb (to hope or dream)
- ingoingo verb (to hope or dream)
- matawara verb (to hope or dream)
- tameme verb (to hope or dream)
Polish
2 entries- aspirować verb (to hope or dream)
- pretendować verb (to hope or dream)
Portuguese
2 entries- almejar verb (to hope or dream)
- aspirar verb (to hope or dream)
Russian
1 entries- стреми́ться verb (to hope or dream)
Spanish
2 entries- ambicionar verb (to hope or dream)
- aspirar verb (to hope or dream)
Swedish
1 entries- sträva verb (to hope or dream)
Turkish
2 entries- heveslenmek verb (to hope or dream)
- isteklenmek verb (to hope or dream)
Sample sentences
27 total sentences available.
The basic question is, what vision do you aspire to?
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Sometimes little kids aspire to be strange things.
Source: tatoeba (706857)
I'm not a mountaineer, and I don't aspire to be one, but it's so cool to stand on a summit and see the world around me from places one can only get to on foot, with a lot of huffing and puffing and sweat along the way.
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