aspiration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: as=pi=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

aspiration, n. [L. aspiratio, fr. aspirare: cf. F. aspiration.].

•  The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.  [1913 Webster]

  "If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

  "Vague aspiration after military renown."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aspiration, n.
1 a strong desire to achieve an end; an ambition.
2 the act or process of drawing breath.
3 the action of aspirating.

Etymology

ME f. OF aspiration or L aspiratio (as ASPIRATE, -ATION)

THESAURUS

aspiration

Aqua-Lung, aim, allophone, alveolar, ambition, ambitiousness, animus, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, artificial respiration, assimilation, assumption, assurance, assured faith, asthmatic wheeze, basis, bated breath, bilabial, bleeding, bloodletting, breath, breath of air, breathing, breathy voice, broaching, broken wind, cacuminal, calling, cause, cerebral, check, cheerful expectation, confidence, consideration, consonant, continuant, conviction, cough, counsel, craving, cupping, dental, dependence, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, diphthong, direction, dissimilation, doomed hope, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, dream, effect, emptying, epenthetic vowel, exhalation, expectation, expiration, explosive, exsufflation, fair prospect, faith, fervent hope, fixed purpose, function, gasp, glide, glottal, glottalization, goal, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, ground, guiding light, guiding star, gulp, guttural, hack, hankering, hiccup, high goal, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, idea, ideal, idealism, ideals, inhalation, inhalator, inhalement, inspiration, insufflation, intendment, intent, intention, iron lung, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, little voice, lodestar, longing, low voice, lust, mainspring, manner of articulation, matter, meaning, milking, mind, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, motive, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mute, mutter, muttering, nasal, nisus, objective, occlusive, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, palatal, pant, parasitic vowel, passion, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phlebotomy, phone, phoneme, pipetting, plan, plosive, plot, point, prayerful hope, presumption, pretension, principle, project, promise, proposal, prospect, prospects, prospectus, prothetic vowel, puff, pumping, purpose, reaching high, reason, reliance, resolution, resolve, respiration, retroflex, sake, sanguine expectation, scheme, score, scuba, security, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sigh, siphoning, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, soft voice, sonant, sonority, source, speech sound, spring, stage whisper, sternutation, stertor, still small voice, stop, striving, study, suck, sucking, suction, surd, suspiration, susurration, susurrus, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tapping, transition sound, triphthong, trust, ulterior motive, underbreath, undertone, upward looking, urge, velar, venesection, view, vocable, vocalic, vocation, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, well-grounded hope, wheeze, whisper, whispering, will, wind, wish, yearning

ROGET THESAURUS

aspiration

Worship

N worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation, kneeling, genuflection, prostration, prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing, petition, collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster, beadroll, latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils, revival, cult, anxious meeting, camp meeting, ebenezer, virginal, thanksgiving, giving thanks, returning thanks, grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna, hallelujah, allelujah, Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis, paean, benschen, Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion, psalm, psalmody, hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet, antiphon, antiphony, oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation, burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering, offertory, discipline, self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial, fasting, divine service, office, duty, exercises, morning prayer, mass, matins, evensong, vespers, undernsong, tierce, holyday, worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant, worshipping, devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn, fervid, Int, hallelujah, allelujah!, hosanna!, glory be to God!, O Lord!, pray God that!, God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid!, sursum corda, making their lives a prayer, ora et labora, prayers ardent open heaven.

Hope

N hope, hopes, desire, fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance, faith, affiance, assurance, secureness, security, reassurance, good omen, good auspices, promise, well grounded hopes, good prospect, bright prospect, clear sky, assumption, presumption, anticipation, hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace, aspiration, optimist, utopian, utopist, castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium, day dream, golden dream, dream of Alnaschar, airy hopes, fool's paradise, mirage, fond hope, beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope, cheer, bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead, light at the end of the tunnel, anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay, staff, heaven, hoping, in hopes, hopeful, confident, secure, sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic, heartsome, utopian, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair, undespairing, self reliant, probable, on the high road to, within sight of shore, within sight of land, promising, propitious, of promise, full of promise, of good omen, auspicious, de bon augure, reassuring, encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored, hopefully, Int, God speed!, nil desperandum, never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora, every cloud has a silver lining, the wish being father to the thought, hope told a flattering tale, rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at spes non fracta, ego spem prietio non emo, un Dieu est ma fiance, hope! thou nurse of young desire, in hoc signo spes mea, in hoc signo vinces, la speranza e il pan de miseri, l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille, the mighty hopes that make us men, the sickening pang of hope deferred.

Desire

N desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.