aspiring

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Adjective

aspiring (not comparable)

  1. Hoping to become.
    Synonyms: ambitious, wannabe, would-be
    Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
    • 1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism”, in Anarchism, and Other Essays‎, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, page 70:
      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.
    • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 16, in This Mournable Body‎, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:
      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.

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Verb

aspiring

  1. present participle and gerund of aspire

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Noun

aspiring (plural aspirings)

  1. (archaic) Aspiration.
    • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 22, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing‎, London: Henry Eversden, pages 214–215:
      […] 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,
    • 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 44, 18 August, 1750, in Volume 2, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 83-84,
      to the aspirings of unassuming trust, and filial confidence, are set no bounds.
    • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam‎, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 4, stanza 12, p. 81:
      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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