Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ambition
Participle: ambitioned
Gerund: ambitioning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ambition |
| you | ambition |
| he;she;it | ambitions |
| we | ambition |
| you | ambition |
| they | ambition |
Perfect
| I | have ambitioned |
| you | have ambitioned |
| he;she;it | has ambitioned |
| we | have ambitioned |
| you | have ambitioned |
| they | have ambitioned |
Past
| I | ambitioned |
| you | ambitioned |
| he;she;it | ambitioned |
| we | ambitioned |
| you | ambitioned |
| they | ambitioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambitioned |
| you | had ambitioned |
| he;she;it | had ambitioned |
| we | had ambitioned |
| you | had ambitioned |
| they | had ambitioned |
Future
| I | will ambition |
| you | will ambition |
| he;she;it | will ambition |
| we | will ambition |
| you | will ambition |
| they | will ambition |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ambitioned |
| you | will have ambitioned |
| he;she;it | will have ambitioned |
| we | will have ambitioned |
| you | will have ambitioned |
| they | will have ambitioned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ambition |
| you | ambition |
| he;she;it | ambition |
| we | ambition |
| you | ambition |
| they | ambition |
Perfect
| I | have ambitioned |
| you | have ambitioned |
| he;she;it | have ambitioned |
| we | have ambitioned |
| you | have ambitioned |
| they | have ambitioned |
Imperfect
| I | ambitioned |
| you | ambitioned |
| he;she;it | ambitioned |
| we | ambitioned |
| you | ambitioned |
| they | ambitioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambitioned |
| you | had ambitioned |
| he;she;it | had ambitioned |
| we | had ambitioned |
| you | had ambitioned |
| they | had ambitioned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ambition |
| you | would ambition |
| he;she;it | would ambition |
| we | would ambition |
| you | would ambition |
| they | would ambition |
Perfect
| I | would have ambitioned |
| you | would have ambitioned |
| he;she;it | would have ambitioned |
| we | would have ambitioned |
| you | would have ambitioned |
| they | would have ambitioned |
Imperative
| you | ambition |
| we | Let's ambition |
| you | ambition |
Verbs conjugated like 'ambition'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ambition'
audition,
action,
albitise,
albitize,
ammunition,
auction,
mention,
motion,
munition,
partition,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1340, from L.
ambitionem (nom.
ambitio) "a going around (to solicit votes)," from
ambitus, pp. of
ambire "to go around" (see ambient). Rarely used in the literal sense in Eng.; the sense of "eager or inordinate desire of honor or preferment" goes back to the L.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-s
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
7. Proto-Italic *amβi-
8. Latin ambi-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
11. Proto-Italic *ejō
12. Proto-Italic *eō
13. Latin eō
14. Latin ambiō
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
16. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
18. Proto-Italic *-tiō
19. Latin -tiō
20. Latin ambitiōder.
21. Old French ambitionbor.
22. Middle English ambicioun
23. English ambition
24. From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion. See: Latin '
ambitiō'.
Sample Sentences
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Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. [1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus:]