Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Animated with an ardent desire, as of power, importance, or excellence; ambitious; soaring: as, “aspiring nobles,” Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i.
- Rising; towering or soaring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That aspires.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective hoping to become
- verb Present participle of
aspire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
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Examples
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Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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As readers know, I am hugely enthusiastic about the stocks of what I call aspiring nations.
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Keats was not alone in aspiring to be a kind of Shakespeare après la lettre.
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An accrediting group last year stripped the hospital of its ability to train aspiring surgeons and radiologists and recommended closing the neonatology training program.
Medpundit 2004
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An accrediting group last year stripped the hospital of its ability to train aspiring surgeons and radiologists and recommended closing the neonatology training program.
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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But how is it possible to be harsh and not sanguinary, in aspiring to become the Leader of a Revolutionary
News Report 1794
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But how is it possible to be harsh and not sanguinary, in aspiring to become the
News Report 1794
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