Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position.
- adjective Seeking recognition, distinction, or advancement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who aspires; one who seeks advancement, elevation, or preference.
- Aspiring; ambitious: as, “our aspirant souls,” Mrs. Browning.
- Ascending; mounting up: as, aspirant flames.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Aspiring.
- noun One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
aspires to high office etc. - adjective seeking
advancement - adjective striving for
recognition
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
- noun an ambitious and aspiring young person
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr Clegg insisted that "alarm clock Britain," which he described as the "aspirant middle classes" who were not comfortably off but worked hard to get ahead, would also benefit from putting action on social mobility at the heart of social policy.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Anyhow, come election time, many people overseas will be delighted to demonstrate their ‘devotion to Britain’ (a quality the Uncle Nick expects to find by the bucketful in aspirant British Citizens) and their everlasting thanks to the great party of Palmerston and Thorpe by hanging up Liberal ‘Democrat’ posters in downtown Ougadougou or the leafy suburbs of Conakry.
Top Cuckoo Speaks 2007
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Anyhow, come election time, many people overseas will be delighted to demonstrate their ‘devotion to Britain’ (a quality the Uncle Nick expects to find by the bucketful in aspirant British Citizens) and their everlasting thanks to the great party of Palmerston and Thorpe by hanging up Liberal ‘Democrat’ posters in downtown Ougadougou or the leafy suburbs of Conakry.
Archive 2007-09-16 2007
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After stumbling in both mass-market and subprime lending, former Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan and other executives refocused the bank's strategy, going after the affluent and what HSBC calls the "aspirant" affluent.
HSBC Plans Course Correction Sara Schaefer Muñoz 2011
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This time the aspirant was a gay young hostler, who conceived the desperate project of posing as the regent's son.
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Paul Barron Watson
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The curricula extend from the rudiments of education clear through the advanced high school course entitling the aspirant to entrance into college or business life.
Camp Bragg and Fayetteville. Sketches of Camp and City No Author 1919
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These great artists, so dissimilar in the outward aspects of their creations, agree in considering that the only way of advancement open to the aspirant is the attempt to form himself on the example of others, by imitating them not slavishly or mechanically, but in the same spirit in which they imitated their forerunners: even as the
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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Tiahuana as perfectly satisfactory; but on the other I think there is reason in the objection raised by my Lord Huanacocha that the aspirant is a white man.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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However, the condonation did not apply to any other non-lateral appointments to the SAPS, such as aspirant recruits.
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The character of Sophia's flat, instead of repelling the wrong kind of aspirant, infallibly drew just that kind.
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
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