“aspiration”

Definitions

• noun

  a will to succeed

  Synonyms: aim, allophone, alveolar, ambition, ambitiousness, animus, articulation, assimilation, assumption, assurance, basis, bilabial

• noun

  a cherished desire

  Synonyms: ambition, dream

  • Example:“His ambition is to own his own business.”

• noun

  a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath

• noun

  the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

  Synonyms: inhalation, inspiration, intake, breathing in