aspiration B2 Topic:Emotions & Feelings US /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/ See IPA manual Freq #29696 Meanings 1 noun A strong hope or ambition to achieve something. She had aspirations to become a doctor. 2 noun The act of breathing in air. Aspiration of food into the lungs can be dangerous. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a strong hope or ambition... ambitiondreamgoal 2 noun · the act of breathing in air. inhalation Word family Forms aspirations Derived forms aspirationalpre-aspirationpreaspiration Common collocations vacuum aspiration Noun + noun Etymology AI details From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō. aspīrātiō Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Emotions & Feelings External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # aspiration **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 29696 ## Meanings 1. A strong hope or ambition to achieve something. 2. The act of breathing in air. ## Examples - She had aspirations to become a doctor. - Aspiration of food into the lungs can be dangerous. ## Derived Forms - aspirational - pre-aspiration - preaspiration ## Roots and Affixes - Root: aspīrātiō ## Etymology From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō. ## AI Etymology Aspiration is from aspirate plus -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, aspiration denotes a strong hope or ambition to achieve something and the act of breathing in air. The same word family continues in derived forms such as aspirational, pre-aspiration, and preaspiration. ## Topics - Emotions & Feelings markdown