Ambition

1. v. t. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
2. n. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
3. n. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.