English-German translations for ambition

• Ehrgeiz der
  Fangen wir mit dem Ehrgeiz bzw. dem mangelnden Ehrgeiz an. Allow me to start with ambition, or the lack of it.
  Diesen Ehrgeiz hat auch unsere Fraktion. That is also our group’s ambition.
  Ich vertraue auf Ihren Ehrgeiz. I am relying on your ambition.
• Ambition die
  Wir teilen diese Ambition und unterstützen sie. We share this ambition and support it.
  Er bezeichnete dies als the gap of ambition. He called this the gap of ambition.
  Sie und Ihre Ambition seien herzlich willkommen. I welcome you and your ambition.
• Ehrsucht die

Definition of ambition

• Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people
• An object of an ardent desire
• A desire, as in , for another person to achieve these things
• The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing
• To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet

Examples

• My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition
• My ambition is to own a helicopter
• Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull

Related words

• ambitionless
• ambitionlessness
• inordinate ambition