"ambition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ambition sustantivo

sustantivo + ambition
Kolokacji: 7
career ambition • life ambition • childhood ambition • lifetime ambition • weapons ambition • ...
ambition + verbo
Kolokacji: 17
ambition leads • ambition makes • ambition grows • ambition seems • ambition comes • ...
verbo + ambition
Kolokacji: 20
realize one's ambition • achieve one's ambition • fulfil one's ambition • pursue one's ambitions • put ambition • ...
adjetivo + ambition
Kolokacji: 120
political ambition • personal ambition • nuclear ambition • presidential ambition • great ambition • high ambition • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 32
(3) nuclear, similar, different
Kolokacji: 3
(6) high, artistic, musical
Kolokacji: 3
(9) literary, worldly, economic
Kolokacji: 3
(10) territorial, regional
Kolokacji: 2
(15) social, cultural
Kolokacji: 2
(16) greatest, commercial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) naked, raw, mad
Kolokacji: 3
(21) only, sole, shared
Kolokacji: 3
(22) ruthless, relentless
Kolokacji: 2
(23) youthful, revolutionary
Kolokacji: 2
(24) far, blind, life-long
Kolokacji: 3
(26) human, boundless
Kolokacji: 2
1. overweening ambition = wygórowana ambicja overweening ambition
2. excessive ambition = nadmierna ambicja excessive ambition
  • The Compulsion to Prove OneselfOften found at the beginning is excessive ambition.
  • But his enemies saw the same qualities in a less favorable light, and ascribed to him excessive ambition, arrogance and manipulativeness.
  • Greed and excessive ambition can stand in the way of obtaining benefit or success.
  • Complementing these stories of excessive ambition are narratives of abstinence.
  • This overview does not suffer from excessive ambition.
  • Stalin's victims were accused of many things, all more serious than Mr. Yeltsin's crime of "political immaturity," and "excessive ambition."
  • Reina de Corazones is a love story marked by falsehood, rivalry and excessive ambition.
  • A much lesser beauty that confined itself within its own limitations would not impart this aura of failure, of excessive ambition unrealized.
  • A light touch, no excessive ambition but an evident enthusiasm, produced a masterpiece.
  • Some leaders accuse each other of excessive ambition, or even of being Government plants.
4. unbridled ambition = nieposkromiona ambicja unbridled ambition
(28) imperialist, imperialistic
Kolokacji: 2
(29) laudable, worthy, admirable
Kolokacji: 3
(30) sheer, bold, entrepreneurial
Kolokacji: 3
(31) culinary, French
Kolokacji: 2
(32) aggressive, rival
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + ambition
Kolokacji: 14
with ambitions • of ambition • to one's ambitions • for one's ambitions • about one's ambitions • ...

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