aspire to do something• Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening.• Franz never aspired to be a moviestar.• Most of us aspire to be as good in our jobs as Rice is in his.• Johnson aspires to become the city's first woman mayor.• She had always collected what she aspired to in her own work.• Once the Cowboysaspired to nothing but excellence and accepted only bottom-line success.• Folk-song was a special case: here words were said to aspire to the condition of music.• To hold such a cure, a man must aspire to the crown of humanity.
Originaspire
(1300-1400)Old Frenchaspirer, from Latinaspirare“to breathe on”, from ad-“to, on to” + spirare“to breathe”