"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
  • Is this unlike the various 'born-again' Christian churches currently in Uganda, run as money-making schemes to fund the leaders' extravagant ambitions?
  • The imperfection may be the inevitable result of his extravagant ambitions.
  • It had over a thousand boarding-houses catering for the masses, but also classier diversions for those with more extravagant ambitions.
  • "Not one for extravagant ambitions, I see," Tasia said.
  • His administration was often referred to as Saudi Venezuela for its grandiose and extravagant ambitions.
  • 'Smiley' Ratliff's extravagant ambitions should not be taken lightly.
  • "A very extravagant ambition."
  • Even then, as a taciturn loner, Springsteen had rather extravagant ambitions about cultivating people like the ones he grew up with.
  • One evening in the common-room they took Reith to task for what they characterized as "extravagant ambitions."
  • The young doctor nursed extravagant literary ambitions and saw in his new position a great opportunity.
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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