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verb (used without object), -pired, -pir·ing.

to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.

Archaic. to rise up; soar; mount; tower.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English (< Middle French aspirer) < Latin aspīrāre to breathe upon, pant after, equivalent to a- a-⁵ + spīrāre to breathe, blow

Related forms

as·pir·er, noun

as·pir·ing·ly, adverb

non·as·pir·ing, adjective

un·as·pir·ing, adjective

un·as·pir·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. yearn.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Aspiring doctors are not normally taught microeconomics, cost accounting or risk management.

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World English Dictionary

aspire (əˈspaɪə)

—vb (usually foll by to or after)
1.	to yearn (for) or have a powerful or ambitious plan, desire, or hope (to do or be something): to aspire to be a great leader
2.	to rise to a great height

[C15: from Latin aspīrāre to breathe upon, from spīrāre to breathe]

as'pirer

—n

as'piring

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

aspire

mid-15c., from O.Fr. aspirer "aspire to, inspire" (12c.), from L. aspirare "to breathe upon, to breathe," also, in transf. senses, "to be favorable to, assist; to climb up to, to endeavor to obtain, to reach to, to seek to reach; infuse," from ad- "to" + spirare "to breathe" (see

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spirit). The notion is of "panting with desire," or perhaps of rising smoke.

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"There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,—only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it."

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