Translation
ambition
Word origin
From Latin ambitio, literally 'a going around', from ambire (amb- 'about' plus ire 'to go'). It named the Roman candidate's circuit of the forum canvassing for votes, and the walking about eventually came to mean the wanting.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ambitio
- English cognates
- ambition, ambient, circuit
Examples
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His ambition was to become a doctor.
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She has great ambition but no patience at all.
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Ambition without work stays nothing but a dream.
is neutral in Esperanto, as in English: and are both idiomatic, and the tone comes from the adjective rather than the noun. The adjective form is ambicia, and a person full of it is an o.
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