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1. A will to succeed
    
2. A cherished desire
   "his aspiration is to own his own business"
   - ambition, dream
    
3. A manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
    
4. The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
   - inhalation, inspiration, intake, breathing in

Derived forms: aspirations

See also: aspirate, aspire

Type of: ambition, ambitiousness, articulation, breath, desire

Part of: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation

Encyclopedia: Aspiration