aspiration

From aspire +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).

   Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.

   Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.

   • 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:

     TfL retains aspirations 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.

From aspirate +‎ -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō.

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The action of aspirating.
2. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

   In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes.

3. (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
4. (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
5. (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.

• aspirational
• preaspiration, pre-aspiration

• “aspiration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aspiration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

aspiration c (singular definite aspirationen, plural indefinite aspirationer)

1. aspiration

• “aspiration” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin aspirātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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aspiration f (plural aspirations)

1. aspiration

• aspirer

• “aspiration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.