aspiration

[As`pi*ra·tion]

If your aspiration, or ambition, is to climb Mt. Everest someday, you better start training, because it’s a long, hard climb that requires a lot of preparation.

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The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

Noun
the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

Noun
a will to succeed

Noun
a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath

Noun
a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"


n.
The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

n.
The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.

n.
The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.


Aspiration

As`pi*ra"tion , n. [L. aspiratio, fr. aspirare: cf. F. aspiration.] 1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing.
2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. 3. The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson.
Vague aspiration after military renown.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

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Usage Examples

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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Other Usage Examples

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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