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      "From Middle English ambitious, from Middle French ambitieus, from Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio; see ambition. Compare with French ambitieux."
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            "mean": "(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.\nan ambitious person\nsomeone's ambitious nature\n1891,  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  The Man with the Twisted Lip:As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a suspicion as to my real occupation."
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            "mean": "Hard to achieve.\n2013 June 1,  \u201cIdeas coming down the track\u201d, in  The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):A \u201cmoving platform\u201d scheme  is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems\u00a0  . Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?"
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            "mean": "ambitious in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.\n\u201cambitious\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201cambitious\u201d, inDictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995\u2013present.\n\"ambitious\" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)\n\"ambitious\" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)\n\u201cambitious\u201d, inLexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019\u20132022.\n<!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw2270\nCached time: 20230818063239\nCache expiry: 1814400\nReduced expiry: false\nComplications: \nCPU time usage: 0.761 seconds\nReal time usage: 1.033 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 4871/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 62319/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 3085/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 13/100\nExpensive parser function count: 2/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post\u2010expand size: 165/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.545/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 22113269/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400\n-->\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  949.344      1 -total\n 18.54%  175.985     39 Template:t\n 17.90%  169.971     46 Template:t+\n  9.19%   87.254      1 Template:root\n  5.47%   51.970      1 Template:en-adj\n  5.08%   48.232      1 Template:inh\n  4.57%   43.403      3 Template:no_deprecated_lang_param_usage\n  4.55%   43.179      2 Template:lb\n  3.94%   37.399      2 Template:quote-text\n  3.67%   34.828     13 Template:categorize\n-->\n\n<!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiktionary:pcache:idhash:41250-0!dateformat=default and timestamp 20230818063238 and revision id 72807094. 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