Aspiration

1. n. The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.
2. n. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
3. n. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.

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.