Ambition

Definition: Ambition

Ambition

Noun

1. A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business".

2. A strong drive for success.

Verb

1. Have as one's ambition.

Date "ambition" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Ambition strictly speaking, means "the going from house to house" (Latin, ambitio, going about canvassing). In Rome it was customary, some time before an election came on, for the candidates to go round to the different dwellings to solicit votes, and those who did so were ambitious of office. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Ambition

Synonyms: ambitiousness (n), aspiration (n), dream (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,.
	Cassius has a lean and hungry look; " hungry as the grave "; " I was born to other things "; " not what we wish but what we want "; " such joy ambition finds "; " the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none "; ubi mel ibi apes.
	Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.
Intention	Noun: intent, intention, intentionality; purpose; quo animo; project; undertaking; predetermination; design, ambition.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ambition

English words defined with "ambition": accomplished, aggressive, aspiration, At all, avid ♦ base, Blue ribbon ♦ completed, compose ♦ devouring, dream ♦ emulation, enterprising, equal, esurient ♦ greedy ♦ highflier, highflyer, Highflying ♦ Impediment in speech ♦ manque, match, mean, meanspirited, moving ♦ On a par ♦ Petalism, pushful, pushing, pushy ♦ realised, realized, rival ♦ shiftless, shiftlessness ♦ To fling away, touch ♦ Unambition ♦ would-be. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ambition": BILL ♦ Chrysanthemum, CLIMBERS ♦ Dome ♦ Eagles ♦ Famine, Firmament, Friend, Fuga ad Salices ♦ Grandison Cromwell Lafayette, Gyneth ♦ HOPE ♦ INSCRIPTION ♦ Jew ♦ King ♦ Laboratory ♦ Macsycophant, Map, Menippos ♦ Sea Foam, Singular in Meaning, St. John Long ♦ Tassels, Type A Personality. (references)

Etymologies containing "ambition": Unambition. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ambition" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (ambition, ambitiousness, goal, striving), German (ambition), Swedish (ambition).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love or be loved, insatiable ambition - and talent (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) The ruthless ambition, your private self-loathing, and that lost and lonely little girl inside (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger) Ambition knows no father (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) It's movement which uses the the pretext of the free movement of goods and men to accelerate the orders of the empire, which stangles us to satisfy its ambition. In my father's memory, I will realize the magic he wanted to create: to chase the Germans and Romans out of Gaul (Vercingétorix; writing credit: Jacques Dorfmann; Rospo Pallenberg) When I was a boy, my comrades and I had one permanent ambition - to be a steamboat man. Boy after boy managed to get on the river (Life on the Mississippi; writing credit: Philip H. Reisman Jr.; Mark Twain)
Lyrics	I'm not between you and your ambition (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis) Pour myself a cup of ambition (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton) Life's ambition occupies my time (Hole Hearted; performing artist: Extreme)
Movie/TV Titles	Her Ambition (1926) The Road of Ambition (1920) Where Ambition Leads (1919) Miss Ambition (1918) False Ambition (1918)
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Domain	Title
Books	All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Ambition (reference) Biography - Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius (reference) Naked Ambition (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Ambition (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition (reference) Nobunaga s Ambition (reference) Nobunaga's Ambition (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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	I have no ambition -- no inner drive -- to get in this thing again!. Credit: Library of Congress.		He's home : with maturity, ambition, skills. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Denham	Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Edmund Burke	Ambition can creep as well as soar.
G. Macdonald	Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
	To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
Montaigne	Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Shakespeare	Too often those who entertain ambition, expel remorse and nature.
T. D. English	Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
William Shakespeare	Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	When the governor, however intitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion. (Second Treatise of Government)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	And his great generous soul seemed so filled with noble ambition as to have no space left for any vain regret or selfish repining
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	No young ambition was foolish enough to ripen in his shadow
Absalom and Achitophel	John Dryden	But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	I hold ambition of so light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This ambition appears to be achievable in certain areas of the country and less easily achievable in other areas. (references)
		In solar heating equipment the end user trend is towards bigger and more ambition systems but elitism also plays a part, as well as cost savings in electrical consumption. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages the record of his services and virtues. To this class of inscriptions belongs the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument. Following are examples of memorial inscriptions on tombstones: (See EPITAPH.) "In the sky my soul is found, And my body in the ground. By and by my body'll rise To my spirit in the skies, Soaring up to Heaven's gate. 1878." "Sacred to the memory of Jeremiah Tree. Cut down May 9th, 1862, aged 27 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. Indigenous." "Affliction sore long time she boar, Phisicians was in vain, Till Deth released the dear deceased And left her a remain. Gone to join Ananias in the regions of bliss." "The clay that rests beneath this stone As Silas Wood was widely known. Now, lying here, I ask what good It was to let me be S. Wood. O Man, let not ambition trouble you, Is the advice of Silas W." "Richard Haymon, of Heaven. Fell to Earth Jan. 20, 1807, and had the dust brushed off him Oct. 3, 1874."
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	At other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.
John Adams	1797-1801	That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.
James Monroe	1817-1825	An ample field for ambition is open before them, but such a career is not consistent with the principles of their Government nor the interests of the nation.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	I allude to the materials which this subject has afforded for sinister appeals to selfish feelings, and the opinion heretofore so extensively entertained of its adaptation to the purposes of personal ambition.
James K. Polk	1845-1849	The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	To every theory of society or government, whether the offspring of feverish ambition or of morbid enthusiasm, calculated to dissolve the bonds of law and affection which unite us, I shall interpose a ready and stern resistance.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	A high sense of duty and an ambition to improve the service should characterize all public officers.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	There are older and deeper sources-in the misery of nations and in man's irrepressible ambition for liberty and a better life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ambition" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambition" is used about 1,317 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	1,317	6,027

Country	Name
Australia	The Ambition Group Ltd.
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Expressions using "ambition": arouse the ambition ♦ be full of ambition ♦ boundless ambition ♦ have ambition ♦ thriftless ambition ♦ with ambition ♦ young ambition. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ambition": over-ambition.
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Language		Translations for "ambition"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		ambisie, aansoek (aspiration). (various references)

Albanian		ambicie (ambitiousness, envy, go ahead), qëllim (aim, aspiration, cause, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, intention, Mark, mission, notion, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, term, thought, view). (various references)

Arabic		‏مطمح, ‏طموح (ambitious, aspirant, aspiration, careerist, fly high, goal, pretension, pretentious, pretentiousness), ‏الطموح. (various references)

Bulgarian		славолюбие (vainglory, vanity), силно желание (anxiety, appetence, appetency, avarice, impatience, itch, lust, oestrum, oestrus, yearning), честолюбие, цел (aim, consummation, designation, destination, effect, end, goal, intent, intention, mission, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, turn), амбиция. (various references)

Chinese		抱負 (aspiration), 志向 (Aspiration). (various references)

Czech		ctižádost. (various references)

Danish		ærgerrighed. (various references)

Dutch		eerzucht, ambitie (fervor, fervour, zeal). (various references)

Esperanto		aspiro (aspiration), ambicio. (various references)

Farsi		جاه طلبی , جاه طلب بودن , ارزو (Appetite, Desire, Ideal, Will, Wish), بلندهمتی (Magnanimity). (various references)

Finnish		pyyde (aspiration, desire, interest), kunnianhimo (ambitiousness). (various references)

French		ambition (ambitiousness). (various references)

Frisian		ambysje (fervour, zeal), earsucht. (various references)

German		Ehrgeiz. (various references)

Greek		φιλοδοξία (ambitiousness, aspiration, pretension). (various references)

Hebrew		ימרנות (ambitiousness, pretentiousness), שאיפה (aspiration, breathing, inhalation, striving, suction), שאפתנות (ambitiousness), שאפנות, אמביציה. (various references)

Hungarian		törekvés (aspiration, effort, endeavor, endeavour, intention, pursuit, striving, tenor), nagyravágyás (ambitiousness, pretence, pretension). (various references)

Indonesian		ambisi, hasrat (ardor, eager, wish), berambisi. (various references)

Italian		ambizione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		覇気 (aspiration), 抱負 (aspiration, pretension). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいがん (calm, complete works, encyclopedia, meeting, opposite shore, self-possessed, the Buddha's great vow, your face), たいぼう (appearance, aspiration, austerity, expectant waiting, voluntary privation), たいもう (aspiration, body hair), たいし (ambassador, aspiration, concerning China, Crown Prince), しぼう (blubber, death, desire, fat, grease, mortality, ovary, wish), ほうふ (abundance, aspiration, bounty, plenty, pretension, wealth), いよく (desire, will), こうじょうしん (aspiration), こうみょうしん (aspiration), ゆうし (an official, another child considered as one's own, brave man, brave warrior, financing, gallant figure, grieving, hero, historical, idle funds or capital, loan, nephew, recorded in history, sympathizer, traveller, voluntary, volunteer, wanderer), やしん (aspiration, designs, treachery), やぼう (aspiration, designs, treachery), はき (annulment, aspiration, breaking, reversing, revocation). (various references)

Korean		명예심. (various references)

Manx		sonaase (haughtiness), mooaralys (arrogance, boastfulness, dignity, haughtiness, ostentation, pomp, vanity), gloyrvian. (various references)

Norwegian		ærgjerrighet. (various references)

Papiamen		aspirashon (aspiration), ambishon. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambitionay.(various references)

Portuguese		ambição (go-ahead, lodestar), pretensão (arrogation, aspiration, assumption, claim, desire, presumption, pretence, pretense, pretension, snobbery, want, wish), aspiração (breathing, desideratum, desire). (various references)

Romanian		ambiţie (aspiration, wish). (various references)

Russian		стремление (aspiration, craving, intention [b], longing, objective, pursuit, rush, tendency), честолюбие (ambitiousness), амбиция честолюбивый, амбиция, ам. (various references)

Scottish		mòrchuis (splendour; ambition). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ambicija, slavoljublje, častoljublje. (various references)

Spanish		ambición (aspiration, goal, urge). (various references)

Sranan		ambisi. (various references)

Swedish		ambition, ärelystnad. (various references)

Tagalog		ambisyón. (various references)

Turkish		tutku (addiction, bug, crush, cult, desire, dotage, fervency, indulgence, pash, passion, penchant, rage). (various references)

Ukrainian		честолюбність, честолюбно прагнути (have ambition), владолюбство, мрія (dream, fancy, reverie, vow), мета (aim, design, effect, goal, intention, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, use), амбіція, прагнення (affectation, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective), домогатися. (various references)

Vietnamese		tham vọng, khát vọng lòng tham, hoài bão. (various references)

Welsh		uchelgais. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aemulatio, aemulatione, aemulationem, aemulationes, ambitio, cupiditas, gloria, gloriae, gloriam. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "ambition": ambitioned, ambitioning, ambitionless, ambitions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ambition" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abition, abtion, admition, Albritton, Ambato, ambishion, ambitron, ambittion, ambution, antizion, Mbitikon, rambutan, umbition. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ambition" (pronounced ambi"shun)
5	-b i" sh u n	exhibition, inhibition, prohibition.
4	-i" sh u n	fission, academician, abolition, acquisition, addition, admission, admonition, ammunition, apparition, attrition, audition, clinician, coalition, cognition, commission, competition, composition, condition, contrition, decommission, decomposition, definition, demolition, dentition, deposition, dietitian, disposition, edition, electrician, emission, erudition, expedition, exposition, extradition, fruition, geriatrician, ignition, imposition, inquisition, intermission, intuition, juxtaposition, logician, magician, malnutrition, mathematician, mission, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, obstetrician, omission, opposition, optician, partition, patrician, pediatrician, permission, petition, physician, politician, position, precondition, predisposition, preignition, premonition, presupposition, proposition, recognition, recondition, redefinition, reimposition, remission, rendition, repetition, reposition, requisition, retransmission, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, submission, superstition, supposition, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, titian, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition.
3	-sh u n	facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, auction, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, lotion, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstruction, occupation, ocean, operation, oppression, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, passion, pasteurization, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, predestination, prediction, predilection, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, replication, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, suppression, suspension, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, titillation, toleration, traction, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization, workstation.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-m-n-o-t"
	-2 letters: biotin, bonita, intima, intomb, manito, obtain.
	-3 letters: ambit, amino, amnio, animi, baton, binit, biont, biota, iambi, imino, matin, nimbi, tibia, toman.
	-4 letters: ambo, amin, anti, atom, bait, bani, bima, bint, boat, bota, iamb, inia, inti, into, iota, main, mano, mina, mini, mint, moan, moat, naoi, noma, nota, obia, obit, omit, tain, tomb.
	-5 letters: abo.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-m-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: ambitions.
	+2 letters: ambitioned.
	+3 letters: abominating, abomination, ambitioning, bombinating, bombination, brominating, bromination, combination, combinative, fimbriation, imbrication, indomitable, indomitably, nimbostrati, sublimation, unambitious.
	+4 letters: abolitionism, abominations, ambitionless, antithrombin, automobiling, biometrician, bombinations, brominations, combinations, embolization, fimbriations, imbibitional, imbrications, incompatible, incompatibly, metabolizing, mobilization, sublimations, umbilication.
	+5 letters: abnormalities, abolitionisms, ambitiousness, antimetabolic, antimicrobial, antithrombins, biometricians, brainstorming, combinational, combinatorial, combinatorics, embolizations, incompatibles, mobilizations, recombination, symbolization, umbilications, zombification.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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ambition nobunagas online	4	ambition download nobunagas	2
ambition pro	4	ambition billion limited	2
ambition and success	4	aguilera ambition christina	2
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ambition blonde naomi watt	4	ambition life	2
		ambition as lyrics rider tupac	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ambition

Definition: Ambition

Ambition

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Specialty Definition: Forty-nine charismatic virtues

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