Usually means: Desire or ambition for achievement.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word aspiration:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. aspiration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aspiration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aspiration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aspiration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aspiration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aspiration, aspiration: Wordnik
  7. aspiration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aspiration: Wiktionary
  9. aspiration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aspiration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aspiration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. aspiration: Dictionary.com
  13. aspiration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Aspiration (album), Aspiration (linguistics), Aspiration (phonetics), Aspiration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Aspiration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. aspiration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. aspiration: Rhymezone
  18. Aspiration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. aspiration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. aspiration: Free Dictionary
  21. aspiration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aspiration: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. aspiration: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aspiration: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Aspiration (long-term hope), Aspiration (medicine), aspiration: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aspiration (long-term hope), Aspiration (medicine), aspiration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Aspiration: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Aspiration (needle), Aspiration: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. aspiration: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  11. Aspiration: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  12. Aspiration: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  13. aspiration: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. Aspiration (long-term hope), Aspiration (medicine), aspiration: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  17. Aspiration: Brain Injury
  18. Aspiration: Drug Medical Dictionary

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. ASPIRATION: Power Engineering
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See aspirational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
noun:  The action of aspirating.
noun:  (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
noun:  (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
noun:  (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.

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