"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
1. literary ambition = literacka ambicja literary ambition
  • It was a long way from the literary ambitions he had nursed not so many years ago.
  • "This is the end of my literary ambitions," she said bitterly.
  • But any literary ambition he may have had in those days was a fleeting thing.
  • Part of the problem stems from the author's sheer literary ambition.
  • The movie, about a young Australian woman at the turn of the century who rejects love for literary ambition, was a hit.
  • He had literary ambitions and embarked on a career as playwright.
  • At this time too he apparently abandoned literary ambitions for himself.
  • It was not till 1828 that he set about the first task of his literary ambition.
  • The reviewer says she had "literary ambitions of her own but little talent."
  • Then there was the unresolved business of his literary ambition.
2. worldly ambition = ziemska ambicja worldly ambition
3. economic ambition = gospodarcza ambicja economic ambition
(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
(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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