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Definition: Aspiring |
AspiringAdjective1. Seeking advancement or recognition. 2. Desiring or striving for recognition or advancement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aspiring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AspiringSynonyms: aspirant (adj), aspiring(a) (adj), aspiring(p) (adj), wishful (adj), would-be(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aspiring |
| English words defined with "aspiring": aspirant, aspirer ♦ Emulative ♦ High-reaching, hopeful ♦ wannabe, wannabee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aspiring": Hemus ♦ WOMAN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Our mission after leaving high school as two aspiring young punks, I think like the only two punks in Salt Lake City at the time, was to go to University and bring down the system (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aspiring Actresses (1989) | |
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| "Cloud walking" by L L Commentary: "Walking on the clouds. Descending Mt. Aspiring, New Zealand." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christopher Marlowe | Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. |
Ludwig Van Beethoven | The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ''Thus far and no farther.'' |
Marcus T. Cicero | When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There are currently no U.S. firms aspiring for this market segment. (references) | |
The Japanese, Germans and French have jointly set up training institutes with a local polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic, to provide technical qualifications for aspiring technicians. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | Malaysia is aspiring to be a regional education center with an increasing number of foreign students being educated in the local private colleges and universities. (references) |
Burma | There may be room for some growth in providing both computer and educational services to the urban elite and even to the aspiring quasi middle class, since these needs are not being met by the government. (references) | |
Hungary | As a result of that stability, Hungary has become a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a full North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member and an aspiring member of the European Union (EU). (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | As in other countries aspiring to membership in the European Union, Bulgaria's 1998 Radio and Television Law requires a "predominant portion" of certain programming to be drawn from European-produced works and sets quotas for Bulgarian works within that portion. (references) |
Political Rights | Tajikistan | Days before the election, an apparently arbitrary Supreme Court decision allowed one of the three aspiring opposition candidates, Economics and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Davlat Usmon of the Islamic Renaissance Party, to register. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | A world of nations striving to preserve their independence, and of peoples aspiring for economic development and political freedom, is not a world hostile to the ideals and interests of the United States. |
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| "Aspiring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.20% of the time. "Aspiring" is used about 162 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.2% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.57% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "aspiring": then-aspiring, town-aspiring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aspiring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | arrivist (pushful, pushing), ambicioz (ambitious, go ahead, greedy for, highflier, Highflyer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | амбициозен (ambitious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 向往 (Aspire, Aspired). (various references) | |
French | potentiel, en herbe. (various references) | |
German | strebend (exerting, striving). (various references) | |
Hungarian | törekvő (ambitious, aspirant, back, striving). (various references) | |
Italian | aspirante (applicant, aspirant, candidate, sucking, would be), ambizioso (ambitious, ambitiously). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 希求 (ask for, aspiring to, demand, seek), 希求 (ask for, aspiring to, demand, seek). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ききゅう (ask for, aspiring to, attempt, balloon, demand, emergency, furlough, leave, seek). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aspiringay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aspirador (aspirator, hoover, vacuum cleaner), ambicioso (ambitious, covetous, greedy, pushful). (various references) | |
Romanian | ambiţios (ambitious, high-aimed, stubborn). (various references) | |
Russian | стремящийся (anxious, eager, eager to), стремиться стремление честолюбивый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slavoljubiv (ambitious). (various references) | |
Spanish | ambicioso (ambitious, ambitiously, careerist, eager, grandiose, lieu, pushful, pushing). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ต้องการ. (various references) | |
Turkish | amaçlayan, gözü olan, can atan (agog, all agog, anxious, enthusiastic, mad about, raring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | честолюбний (ambitious, emulate, emulous), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Aspiring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afsprengi, Asperen, asperin, aspering, Aspertini, aspidin, aspirine, Asprin, aspring, sairing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aspiring" (pronounced uspī"ring) |
| 6 | -s p ī" r i ng | conspiring, expiring, inspiring, perspiring, uninspiring. |
| 4 | -ī" r i ng | acquiring, admiring, firing, hiring, quiring, rehiring, retiring, tiring, wiring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, adhering, adoring, airing, alluring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, exploring, fearing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, repairing, restoring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, touring, uncaring, underscoring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pairings, praising. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: airings, arising, aspirin, pairing, parings, parsing, prising, raising, rapinis, rasping, sparing, spiring. | |
-2 letters: airing, grains, paring, prangs, raisin, raping, rapini, rasing, riping, rising, siping, siring, sprain, sprang, spring. | |
-3 letters: airns, aping, gains, garni, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grasp, grins, grips, iring, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, pangs, paris, pians, piing, pinas, pings, pirns, prang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: apprising, spiraling, spraining, traipsing, upraising. | |
+2 letters: aphorising, appraising, aspirating, despairing, disparting, hairspring, mainspring, misparsing, misparting, polarising, practising, spiralling, springtail, vaporising. | |
+3 letters: disparaging, dispraising, dispreading, espaliering, frangipanis, hairsprings, lipreadings, mainsprings, misphrasing, parasailing, patronising, pharyngitis, plaistering, privatising, springtails, transpiring. | |
+4 letters: appraisingly, caparisoning, despairingly, disappearing, disapproving, earsplitting, gallinippers, guardianship, imparadising, interspacing, jeopardising, overpraising, parasailings, parasitising, parasitizing, pasteurising, pasteurizing, plagiarising, playwritings, popularising, preassigning, printmakings, reappraising, redisplaying, rhapsodizing, scintigraphy, spearfishing, transhipping. | |
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