noun.
Aspiration; ardent wish or desire.
To breathe to or into.
To breathe forth or exhale.
To breathe after; seek with eagerness to attain to; long or try to reach; attempt.
To mount or soar to; attain.
To be eagerly desirous; aim ambitiously, especially at something great or noble; be ambitious: followed by an object with to or after, or by an infinitive: as, to aspire to a crown or after immortality.
To rise up as an exhalation, or as smoke or fire; hence, to mount or ascend; tower up or rise high.