{
    "term": "ambition",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "something that you want to do or achieve very much",
            "sensetop": "ambition of being/doing something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had fulfilled her **lifelong ambition**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His burning ambition was to study medicine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "political/artistic/career ambitions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At last he had realized his **life's ambition**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had only one **ambition in life**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the country's **nuclear ambitions** *(= plans to develop nuclear weapons)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.",
                    "contextForm": "ambition of being/doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's global ambitions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "burning", "driving"],
                "verb + ambition": ["cherish", "harbour/​harbor", "have"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the desire or strength of mind to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was driven by personal ambition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a young man with the ambition to succeed in his chosen career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a woman of driving ambition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has no ambition."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["driving", "great", "naked"],
                "verb + ambition": ["have", "lack"],
                "ambition + verb": ["burn"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃn/",
                "audio": "am/ambition/ambition__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃn/",
                "audio": "am/ambition/ambition__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin ambitio(n-), from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’."
}