Fromaspire +-ation.
aspiration (countable anduncountable,pluralaspirations)
- The act ofaspiring or ardently desiring; anardent wish ordesire, chiefly after what iselevated orspiritual (with common adjunctadpositions beingto andof).
Riley has anaspiration to become a doctor.
Morgan has anaspiration of winning the game.
2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, inModern Railways, page18:TfL retainsaspirations to further increase frequency on the ELL[East London Line] to 24tph, which would require a switch from conventional signalling to a digital railway solution involving automatic train operation on the core section.
hope or ambition
- Arabic:أَمَل m(ʔamal)
- Armenian:ձգտում (hy)(jgtum)
- Bengali:তামান্না (bn)(tamanna)
- Bulgarian:стремеж (bg)(stremež),амбиция (bg)(ambicija)
- Catalan:aspiració (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:希望 (zh)(xīwàng)
- Finnish:pyrkimys (fi)
- French:aspiration (fr)
- Georgian:სწრაფვა(sc̣rapva),მისწრაფება(misc̣rapeba)
- German:Verlangen (de) n,Sehnsucht (de) f;Aspiration (de) f
- Greek:φιλοδοξία (el) f(filodoxía),ιδανικό (el) n(idanikó)
- Gujarati:(pleaseverify)આકાન્ક્ષા(ākānkṣā)
- Irish:ardaidhm f,ardmhian f,barrmhian f
- Japanese:希望 (ja)(きぼう, kibō)
- Korean:열망 (ko)(yeolmang),염원 (ko)(yeomwon),포부 (ko)(pobu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:ئاوات(awat)
- Malayalam:അഭിലാഷം (ml)(abhilāṣaṁ)
- Maori:matanā,tāpara,tūmanakotanga,matawara,koronga,awata,maingo,pīrangi
- Plautdietsch:Väanämungsjeist m
- Polish:ambicja (pl) f,aspiracja (pl) f
- Portuguese:aspiração (pt) f
- Russian:стремле́ние (ru) n(stremlénije),наде́жда (ru) f(nadéžda),амби́ция (ru) f(ambícija)
- Scottish Gaelic:dèidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:težnja (sh) f,aspiracija (sh) f
- Slovak:ašpirácia (sk)
- Spanish:aspiración (es) f
- Yiddish:שטרעבן m(shtrebn)
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Fromaspirate +-ion or borrowed fromLatinaspīrātiō.
aspiration (countable anduncountable,pluralaspirations)
- The action ofaspirating.
- (phonetics) Aburst ofair that follows the release of someconsonants.
- (medicine) Thewithdrawal offluid,tissue, or other substance, usually through ahollowneedle from abody cavity,cyst, ortumor.
- (French, linguistics) The silentbreakingh beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
- (Gaelic, linguistics) The process oflenition involving writing a digraph withh, especially at the beginning of a word.
medicine: withdrawal of fluid
burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
Translations to be checked
- “aspiration”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aspiration”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
aspiration c (singular definiteaspirationen,plural indefiniteaspirationer)
- aspiration
Borrowed fromLatinaspirātiōnem.
aspiration f (pluralaspirations)
- aspiration
