English-Polish translations for ambition

• ambicja
  Pana ambicja jest naszą ambicją. Your ambition is our ambition.
  Podstawowy aspekt można podsumować zaledwie jednym słowem: ambicja. The main point can be summed up by just one word: ambition.
  Ucieszyła mnie tak ogromna ambicja uczestników spotkania. I was glad to find such a level of ambition around the table.
• pragnienie
  Pragnienie Komisji, aby zwiększyć nakłady na infrastrukturę energetyczną to najnowsza pozycja w szerokim wachlarzu przykładów arogancji, którą są skażeni urzędnicy w Berlaymont. The Commission's ambition to increase investments in energy infrastructure is the latest in a long line of examples of the arrogance that has infected the officials in Berlaymont.

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