aspiring

adj

1. (not-comparable)Hoping to become.

   “Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.”

   “Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.”

   “Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of aspire

noun

1. (archaic)Aspiration.

   “[…] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […]”

   “[…] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.”

   “From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold, Have I collected language to unfold Truth to my countrymen; […]”