aspiring

Definitions

1. 1

   Hoping to become.

   • Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
   • Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.
   • Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.
2. 2

   present participle and gerund of aspire

3. 3

   Aspiration.

   • […] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […]
   • […] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.
   • From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold, Have I collected language to unfold Truth to my countrymen; […]

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