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Ambition: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Ambitious: Definition and part of speech

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Ambitious

  1. a. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
  2. a. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
  3. a. Strongly desirous; — followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do 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.

Ambient: Definition and part of speech

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Ambient

  1. n. Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.
  2. a. Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.

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.

Ambigenous: Definition and part of speech

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Ambigenous

  1. a. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
  2. a. Of two kinds.

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.