Ambition vs Career - What's the difference?
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(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
* Burke
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
* Milton
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
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General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
(archaic) speed
* Wilkins
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
A jouster's path during a joust.
* 1819 :
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
* 1603 , John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas , I.48:
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
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In obsolete terms the difference between ambition and career
is that ambition is the act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing while career is a racecourse; the ground run over.As nouns the difference between ambition and career
is that ambition is eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people while career is one's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.As verbs the difference between ambition and career
is that ambition is to seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet while career is to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.ambition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Quotations
(English Citations of "ambition")Verb
(en verb)- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
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English
(wikipedia career)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
- Washington's career as a soldier
- when a horse is running in his full career
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career ; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career .
- It is said of Cæsar that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. (carriere)], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- to go back again the same career
Verb
(en verb)- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
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