Aspirant
[ə'spaɪər(ə)nt;'æsp(ɪ)r-] or [ə'spaɪərənt]
Definition
(noun.) an ambitious and aspiring young person; 'a lofty aspirant'; 'two executive hopefuls joined the firm'; 'the audience was full of Madonna wannabes'.
(adj.) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement .
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Aspiring.
(n.) One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aspirer, ambitious person.[2]. Candidate, solicitor, solicitant, competitor.
a. Aspiring, ambitious.
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Definition
n. one who aspires (with after for): a candidate.—adj. ambitious: mounting up (rare in both senses).
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Examples
- Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature--the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest--in the limits of a single passion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Could you believe, my Ownest, that I came in here with the name of an aspirant to our Georgiana on my lips? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living, replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When one of the Tammany aspirants appeared, he was told to go right to work at $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Wherever you go, I suppose, aspirants will not be wanting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Oh, mitred aspirants for this world's kingdoms! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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