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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aspirant
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
presidential
▪ No longer could the party itself decide which presidential aspirant should receive how much money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if the Whalers trade Coffey, it should be a serious postseason aspirant and could do some damage.
▪ Several of them went to an acting class run by Jeff Corey, where other aspirants included James Coburn.
▪ The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham.
▪ They tend to remain democratic aspirants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aspirant

Aspirant \As*pir"ant\, n. [Cf. F. aspirant.] One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.

In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants.
--Macaulay.

Aspirant

Aspirant \As*pir"ant\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. aspirant, p. pr. of aspirer. See Aspire.] Aspiring.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aspirant

"one who aspires," 1738, from French aspirant, from Latin aspirantem (nominative aspirans), present participle of aspirare (see aspire).

Wiktionary
aspirant

a. 1 seeking advancement 2 striving for recognition n. someone who aspires to high office etc.

WordNet
aspirant
  1. adj. seeking advancement or recognition [syn: aspiring(p), wishful, would-be(a)]

  2. desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn: aspiring(a)]

  3. n. an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee]

Wikipedia
Aspirant

Aspirant is a military rank in the Royal Canadian Navy, Estonian Defence Forces, French military, Brazilian military, Italian Air Force, Argentinian Armed Forces, Romanian Navy, Polish Policja and Państwowa Straż Pożarna.

Aspirant (Romania)

In the Romanian Naval Forces, Aspirant is the lowest commissioned rank, equivalent to the rank of Ensign.

Aspirant (Romania) Aspirant (Romania)

Usage examples of "aspirant".

The prince went up to the arguers, asked what it was about, and, politely pushing Lebedev and Keller aside, delicately addressed a gray-haired and stocky gentleman, who was standing on the porch steps at the head of several other aspirants, and invited him to do him the honor of favoring him with his visit.

But somehow the implant wiring went awry: the chroma networks failed to connect properly, and there was a loss of color reception in the occipital lobe, with the result that the young aspirant could see, paint, and think only in black and white.

This excellent individual, the friend of so many literary aspirants, was a native of Dunse, and had the merit of raising himself from humble circumstances to the office of a master in the High School of Edinburgh.

An aspirant known as Logi managed to blow himself up with his own krak grenade during live ammunition training.

Indeed, so forcible and close is the correspondence between the course of the aspirant in his initiation dramatically dying, descending into Hades, rising again to life, and ascending into heaven with the apostolic presentation of the redemptive career of Christ, our great Forerunner, that some writers Nork, for instance have suggested that the latter was but the exoteric publication to all the world of what in the former was esoterically taught to the initiates alone.

Roger prenait place devant elle sur une chaise, lui tenant les mains dans les siennes, penche vers elle, aspirant ses paroles et ses regards.

The first thing in a case where both man and woman are aspirants is to help each other in Sadhana, the spiritual effort.

Alverstoke, four years senior to the fascinating Sally Fane, had never been amongst the aspirants to her hand and fortune, she frankly owned that she had a tendre for him, and ranked him amongst her oldest friends.

They are the people whom you see every day and dismiss as junior aspirants, junior sufferers, unvexed by soul.

Her husband, her uncle, and her aunt were with her, and also two friends, one of whom was the aspirant for the hand of my niece.

IL les avala facilement en aspirant un peu de Drinil par un autre tube.

The aspirant attained only the exoteric knowledge in the first two Degrees.

The interview could not have lasted over ten minutes when Sorav summoned an aid whom he instructed to record us properly, and then escort us to the quarters in the palace which are set aside for aspirants to membership in the palace guard.

The interlude might even help in his other plan to be restrained in all things despite what the other aspirant Mohocks might do.

Three of them were Mohocks though and Marks especially had a carrying voice and the mind of an aspirant lawyer.