{
    "term": "ambitious",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "determined to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fiercely ambitious young manager"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were very ambitious for their children *(= they wanted them to be successful)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am very ambitious. Nothing means more to me than winning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not ambitious enough to try for the top."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've never been particularly ambitious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a great student—dedicated, hardworking and ambitious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The students are all ambitious to do well."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success", "Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the government’s **ambitious plans** for social reform"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jogging every morning? That’s very ambitious, isn’t it?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several interns will be working on three ambitious new projects."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Phases 2 and 3 seem overly ambitious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book is ambitious in scope."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃəs/",
                "audio": "am/ambitious/ambitious__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æmˈbɪʃəs/",
                "audio": "am/ambitious/ambitious__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French ambitieux or Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio, from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’."
}