Usually means: Desire to achieve something great.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. aspire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aspire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aspire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aspire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aspire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aspire, aspire: Wordnik
  7. aspire: Wiktionary
  8. aspire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aspire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. aspire: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Aspire, aspire: Dictionary.com
  12. aspire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. aspire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ASPiRE (TV network), Aspire (TV network), Aspire (political party), Aspire (sculpture), Aspire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Aspire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. aspire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. aspire: Rhymezone
  18. aspire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. aspire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. aspire: Free Dictionary
  21. aspire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aspire: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. aspire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aspire (disambiguation), aspire: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aspire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ASPIRE: Acronym Finder
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  3. aspire: Idioms

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.

Similar:
aim, shoot for, reach for, ambitionize, reaspire, long, reach for the stars, aim at, feel like, crave, more...

Opposite:
aspirate, aspirer

Types:
long for, yearn for, hope for, aim for, strive for, more...

Phrases:
aspire to, Acer Aspire One, Aspire Academy, Acer Aspire laptops, Acer Aspire, more...

Adjectives:
many, few, new, vain, right, high, young, present, best, least, french

Colors:
    sky blue,     gold,     silver,     royal blue,     crimson, more...


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Similar:
aim, shoot for, reach for, ambitionize, reaspire, long, reach for the stars, aim at, feel like, crave, more...

Opposite:
aspirate, aspirer

Types:
long for, yearn for, hope for, aim for, strive for, more...

Phrases:
aspire to, Acer Aspire One, Aspire Academy, Acer Aspire laptops, Acer Aspire, Aspire Tower, Aspire Zone, aspire notebook maker, aspire to do something, something to aspire to, the person you aspire to be, more...

Adjectives:
many, few, new, vain, right, high, young, present, best, least, french

Colors:
    sky blue,     gold,     silver,     royal blue,     crimson, more...



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