Ambition vs. Prospect — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ambition and Prospect
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Definitions
Ambition➦
An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.
Prospect➦
The possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring
Some training which offered a prospect of continuous employment
There was no prospect of a reconciliation
Ambition➦
The object or goal desired
Her ambition is the presidency.
Prospect➦
A person regarded as likely to succeed or as a potential customer, client, etc.
Norwich's unbeaten heavyweight prospect
Clients deemed likely prospects for active party membership
Ambition➦
Desire for exertion or activity; energy
Had no ambition to go dancing.
Prospect➦
An extensive view of landscape
A viewpoint commanding a magnificent prospect of the estuary
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Ambition➦
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
Prospect➦
Search for mineral deposits, especially by drilling and excavation
The company is also prospecting for gold
Ambition➦
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
Prospect➦
Something expected; a possibility.
Ambition➦
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
Prospect➦
Chances.
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Ambition➦
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
Prospect➦
Financial expectations, especially of success.
Ambition➦
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Prospect➦
A potential customer, client, or purchaser.
Ambition➦
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Prospect➦
A candidate deemed likely to succeed.
Ambition➦
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Prospect➦
The direction in which an object, such as a building, faces; an outlook.
Ambition➦
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Prospect➦
Something presented to the eye; a scene
A pleasant prospect.
Ambition➦
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Prospect➦
The act of surveying or examining.
Ambition➦
A cherished desire;
His ambition is to own his own business
Prospect➦
The location or probable location of a mineral deposit.
Ambition➦
A strong drive for success
Prospect➦
An actual or probable mineral deposit.
Ambition➦
Have as one's ambition
Prospect➦
The mineral yield obtained by working an ore.
Prospect➦
To search for or explore (a region) for mineral deposits or oil.
Prospect➦
To explore for mineral deposits or oil.
Prospect➦
The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
Prospect➦
A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
Prospect➦
A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
Prospect➦
Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
Prospect➦
The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
Prospect➦
The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
Prospect➦
A hope; a hopeful.
Prospect➦
(sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
Prospect➦
(sales) A potential client or customer.
Prospect➦
(music) The façade of an organ.
Prospect➦
(intransitive) To search, as for gold.
Prospect➦
To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
Prospect➦
That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
His eye discovers unawareThe goodly prospect of some foreign land.
Prospect➦
Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon.
Prospect➦
A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
Him God beholding from his prospect high.
Prospect➦
Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
And their prospect was toward the south.
Prospect➦
The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life ?
Prospect➦
That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
These swell their prospectsd exalt their pride,When offers are disdain'd, and love deny'd.
Prospect➦
To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
Prospect➦
To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.
Prospect➦
The possibility of future success;
His prospects as a writer are excellent
Prospect➦
Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Prospect➦
Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
Prospect➦
The visual percept of a region;
The most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
Prospect➦
A prediction of the course of a disease
Prospect➦
Search for something desirable;
Prospect a job
Prospect➦
Explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
