ASPIRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aspirant mean? 

• ASPIRANT (noun)
  The noun ASPIRANT has 1 sense:

1. an ambitious and aspiring young person

  Familiarity information: ASPIRANT used as a noun is very rare.

• ASPIRANT (adjective)
  The adjective ASPIRANT has 1 sense:

1. desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

  Familiarity information: ASPIRANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPIRANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ambitious and aspiring young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

aspirant; aspirer; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee

Context example:

the audience was full of Madonna wannabes

Hypernyms ("aspirant" is a kind of...):

applicant; applier (a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission)

Derivation:

aspirant (desiring or striving for recognition or advancement)

aspire (have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal)

• ASPIRANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

Synonyms:

aspirant; aspiring; wishful

Similar:

ambitious (having a strong desire for success or achievement)

Derivation:

aspirant (an ambitious and aspiring young person)

aspire (have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal)

 Context examples 

"Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living," replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Agnes says No, but I say Yes, and tell her that she little thinks what stores of knowledge have been mastered by the wonderful Being, at whose place she thinks I, even I, weak aspirant, may arrive in time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature—the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)