aspirant
- a person who aspires, as one who seeks or desires a career, advancement, status, etc.: The aspirants for foundation grants had yet to prove themselves.
- aspiring or yearning for something important or of value.
Origin of aspirant
Related Words for aspirant
contestant, applicant, candidate, competitor, hopeful, wannabe, postulant, striverExamples from the Web for aspirant
Contemporary Examples of aspirant
Turkey, a NATO member and European Union aspirant, has a long history of jailing journalists and dissenters.
This is where the votes are and where aspirant politicians have to aim much of their agenda.
Historical Examples of aspirant
How is the aspirant thirsting for knowledge to signify to them his wish for instruction?
ClairvoyanceCharles Webster Leadbeater
Many times the aspirant will remark, "I swear I didn't make it move!"
A Practical Guide to Self-HypnosisMelvin Powers
It was the aspirant he had drunk beer with weeks ago at Brocourt.
One Man's Initiation--1917John Dos Passos
But this was merely the probation of the "novice," as the aspirant was termed.
KosciuszkoMonica Mary Gardner
Yet this man is the only Thinker, the only Aspirant, amongst them all.
ZanoniEdward Bulwer Lytton
aspirant
- a person who aspires, as to a high position
- aspiring or striving
Word Origin and History for aspirant
"one who aspires," 1738, from French aspirant, from Latin aspirantem (nominative aspirans), present participle of aspirare (see aspire).