aspiration
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a will to succeed
Types & categories
- ambitiousness hypernym
Related & opposite
- aspire derivation
Sense 2 noun
a cherished desire
his ambition is to own his own business
Types & categories
- desire hypernym
- American Dream hyponym
- emulation hyponym
- nationalism hyponym
Related & opposite
- aspire derivation
- ambition derivation
- challenging derivation
Sense 3 noun
a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
Types & categories
- articulation hypernym
Related & opposite
- aspirate derivation
Sense 4 noun
the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- breathing part holonym
Related & opposite
- aspirate derivation
- breathe in derivation
- inhale derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | aspire |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ambitiousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | aspire |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ambition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | challenging |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | desire |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | American Dream |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | emulation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | nationalism |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | aspirate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | articulation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | aspirate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | breathe in |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhale |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | breathing |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | breath |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | gasp |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | drag |