Aspiring

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Animated with an ardent desire, as of power, importance, or excellence; ambitious; soaring: as, “aspiring nobles,” Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i.
  • Rising; towering or soaring.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. That aspires.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. hoping to become
  • verb. Present participle of aspire.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
  • Word Usage
    "Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford."