Ambition
Meaning of Ambition
A strong desire to achieve something, usually requiring effort.
ما معنى كلمة Ambition بالعربي؟
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Synonyms & related words
Ambition in a sentence
The team's ambition is to publish the full study.
The firm's ambition is to reach every classroom.
His ambition was recorded in the founding statement.
A learner's ambition grows with each small win.
Origin of Ambition
From Latin ambitio 'a going around to canvass for votes', from ambire 'to go around'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, ambition names purposeful drive. Daily steps turn ambition into results.
Ambition audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "ambition" — a noun, pronounced /æmˈbɪʃən/, with the stress on "bi".
Narrator: Ambition is a strong desire to achieve something — success, power, or a particular dream — and the drive that goes with it.
Narrator: In plain English, ambition is the engine of wanting more — the pull toward the bigger thing.
Narrator: Its origin is a Roman walk — Latin "ambitio", from "ambire", to go around: candidates going around canvassing for votes.
Narrator: So the first ambition was literally campaigning — walking in circles, collecting support, wanting office.
Narrator: For centuries it was a vice — medieval sermons ranked ambition near pride; Shakespeare's Brutus killed Caesar for it.
Narrator: The modern world rehabilitated it — job adverts now demand the very quality sermons once condemned.
Narrator: It counts both ways — uncountable as the drive: full of ambition; countable as the dream: her ambition is to fly solo.
Narrator: So remember: ambition is the going-around desire — once a Roman's campaign walk, now the engine under every big dream.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Careers-evening whiplash — one teacher praised my niece's ambition, another warned against "too much ambition", and she came home asking which one owns the dictionary!
Speaker B: Both, historically! AMBITION — the strong desire to achieve — has led a double life for two thousand years. Latin "ambitio" was candidates walking around canvassing votes; sermons called it a vice; job adverts now demand it. Her teachers were quoting different centuries.
Speaker A: So the word started as literal walking?
Speaker B: A campaign stroll! "Ambire" — to go around — described Roman candidates circling the forum collecting support. The wanting behind the walking became the word. Every ambitious person is, etymologically, still canvassing.
Speaker A: Example sentences from both centuries?
Speaker B: "Her ambition is to open her own bakery"; "the project failed through lack of ambition, not lack of skill"; "blind ambition cost him every friend he had" — dreams, boldness, and the cautionary tale, all in one word.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with it?
Speaker B: The countability dance, first — uncountable as the drive: "she has great ambition"; countable as the specific dream: "one of my ambitions is to see Japan". Then the preposition: ambition is TO do something — "an ambition to write", not "an ambition of writing", though "ambitions of grandeur" survives as a set phrase.
Speaker A: The drive versus the dreams — counted differently! Family members?
Speaker B: A hardworking household — AMBITIOUS the adjective, for people and for plans: "an ambitious schedule" means a demanding one; AMBITIOUSLY the adverb. And note the plan sense — calling a project ambitious praises its reach while quietly doubting its arrival!
Speaker A: "Ambitious timeline" — the polite doubt! When does the word turn dark?
Speaker B: With the wrong adjectives — BLIND ambition tramples; RUTHLESS ambition budgets for casualties; NAKED ambition forgot to dress. Alone, the word is now mostly praise; its companions decide whether it's a ladder or a bulldozer.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Aspiration" is the gentler twin — hope with the elbows tucked in; "drive" is the raw engine, goal optional; "determination" persists rather than desires; "goal" is the destination ambition walks toward. "Ambition" keeps the full package — the wanting, the walking, and the fire!
Speaker A: My niece has settled on "warm ambition with good manners" as her brand.
Speaker B: The forum would vote for her!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "ambition" in AI prompts — a scope word: it sets how big to build, and powers the goal-tracking features apps love.
Speaker A: So ambition in a prompt calibrates the size of the ask?
Speaker B: Exactly. For scope-setting, you'd write:
Prompt: Match my app's ambition to one weekend — a working habit tracker with add, tick, and streaks only: no accounts, no social features, no settings page. Small ambition, fully finished, beats grand ambition abandoned.
Speaker B: Declaring the ambition level stops the AI gold-plating a weekend project into a startup.
Speaker A: Small and finished beats grand and abandoned — the builder's creed! Goals?
Speaker B: The tracker prompt:
Prompt: Build an ambitions page into my coaching app — each client records their big ambition, breaks it into milestones with dates, and sees a progress bar from first step to dream, celebrating each milestone reached. The dream drawn as a road.
Speaker A: The dream drawn as a road — coaching made visible! Stretch goals?
Speaker B: The two-tier prompt:
Prompt: Add two-tier targets to my sales dashboard — a realistic goal and an ambitious stretch goal per person, both bars visible, with the stretch celebrated loudly and the realistic one expected quietly. Ambition displayed, pressure managed.
Speaker A: Ambition displayed, pressure managed — HR-grade wisdom! Roadmaps?
Speaker B: The honest-roadmap prompt:
Prompt: Sort my feature backlog by ambition versus effort — a simple grid of big-dream versus quick-win, with the top three quick wins and the one worthy ambition marked for this quarter. Dream big, ship small, repeat.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The onboarding prompt:
Prompt: Ask new users about their ambition in my fitness app's first screen — one question, three answer levels from gentle to fierce, shaping the plan difficulty and the tone of every message after. Meet the ambition where it lives.
Speaker A: So "ambition" sizes the weekend build, roads the dream, tiers the targets, grids the backlog, and tunes the training plan.
Speaker B: Exactly — the going-around word: name how big the wanting is, and the AI builds to fit it.
Frequently asked questions about Ambition
What does Ambition mean?
A strong desire to achieve something, usually requiring effort.
ما معنى كلمة Ambition بالعربي؟
طموح أو رغبة قوية في الإنجاز — 🎯🚀 طموح أو رغبة قوية في الإنجاز؛ سعي واعٍ نحو هدف كبير؛ اسم يصف الدافع للتفوق والارتقاء ⭐✨
How do you pronounce Ambition?
Ambition is pronounced /æmˈbɪʃn/ and is used as a noun.
How is Ambition used in a sentence?
The team's ambition is to publish the full study.
What are synonyms of Ambition?
aspiration, drive, goal, dream, aim, determination.