Usually means: Desire to achieve success, goals.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ambition:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ambition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambition, ambition: Wordnik
  7. ambition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambition: Wiktionary
  9. ambition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ambition, ambition: Dictionary.com
  13. ambition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ambition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ambition (Julie Birchill novel), Ambition (TV series), Ambition (Tommy Shaw album), Ambition (Wale album), Ambition (charity), Ambition (fragrance), Ambition (novel), Ambition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ambition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ambition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ambition: Rhymezone
  19. Ambition (f), ambition, ambition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ambition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. AMBITION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. ambition: Free Dictionary
  23. ambition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ambition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ambition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ambition: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ambition: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambition: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ambitionless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
noun:  (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
noun:  A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
noun:  (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
verb:  To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

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