as·pi·ra·tion [as-puh-rey-shuhn]
–noun
1. strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
2. a goal or objective desired.
3. act of aspirating; breath.
4. Phonetics: accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how, or of when (hwen), or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (< MF) < L aspiration- (s. of aspiratio). See aspirate, -ion]
–noun
1. strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
2. a goal or objective desired.
3. act of aspirating; breath.
4. Phonetics: accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how, or of when (hwen), or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (< MF) < L aspiration- (s. of aspiratio). See aspirate, -ion]
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