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        "From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue."
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              "mean": "(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.\nMy son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.\n1756,  ,  A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. , London:    M. Cooper , →OCLC, page 20:One is aſtoniſhed hovv ſuch a ſmall ſpot could furniſh Men ſufficient to ſacrifice to the pitiful Ambition of poſſeſſing five or ſix thouſand more Acres, or tvvo or three more Villages:"
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              "mean": "(countable) An object of an ardent desire.\nMy ambition is to own a helicopter."
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              "mean": "A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things."
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              "mean": "(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.\n1671,  John Milton,  “Samson Agonistes, ”, in  Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London:    J. M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 22:I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds,"
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              "mean": "To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.\n1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus\nPausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage."
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              "mean": "ambition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\nambition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911"
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