aspirationnoun
uk/ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæs.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/aspiration noun (HOPE)
C2 [ C usually plural, U ] something that you hope to achieve:
I've never had any political aspirations.
It's a story about the lives and aspirations of poor Irish immigrants.
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- It is important to encourage children's dreams and aspirations.
- Do these house and garden makeover shows really reflect the aspirations of the average British family?
- Having had little education herself, she had very high educational aspirations for her children.
- He worked hard to fulfil his childhood aspiration to become a surgeon.
- Trade union leaders said they were fighting for the hopes and aspirations of their members.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Goals and purposes
- affordance
- aim
- ambition
- avail
- cause 1
- dedicated
- deliverable
- end
- KPI
- object
- objective
- order
- orientation
- point
- poodle
- poodle around (sth)
- prize
- should
- use
- utility
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Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aspiration noun (PHONETICS)
[ U ] the noise that is made when air escapes after a plosive consonant sound:
In English, aspiration is an important feature in whether we hear a sound as /p/ or /b/ at the beginning of a word.
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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alveolar
- approximant
- articulatory
- assimilation
- clear l
- clipped
- consonant
- inflection
- nasalization
- onomatopoeia
- palatal
- palato-alveolar
- pharyngeal
- phoneme
- pronounce
- silent letter
- velum
- voiced
- vowel
- weak form
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