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Borrowed from French aspirant.

• IPA(key): /ˈæspəɹənt/
• (Philippines) IPA(key): /ɐsˈpaɪɹɐnt/ (nonstandard)

aspirant (plural aspirants)

1. Someone who aspires (for high office, etc.)
   The company received dozens of applications from job aspirants.
   Every aspirant actor dreams of making it to Broadway.
   He was an aspirant to the presidency, though his chances were slim.

someone who aspires for high office, etc.

• Catalan: aspirant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 有志者 (yǒuzhìzhě)
• Esperanto: aspiranto
• Finnish: havittelija (fi)
• French: aspirant (fr) m
• German: Aspirant (de) m, Aspirantin (de) f, Bewerber (de) m, Bewerberin (de) f, Anwärter (de) m, Anwärterin (de) f
• Hindi: आकांक्षी (hi) (ākāṅkṣī)
• Italian: aspirante (it) m or f
• Latin: affectātor m
• Polish: aspirant (pl) m, aspirantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: aspirante (pt) m or f
• Spanish: aspirante m or f

aspirant (comparative more aspirant, superlative most aspirant)

1. Seeking advancement.
2. Striving for recognition.

• aspirant nation

• aspirant nation-state

• aspirant state

• nonaspirant

• spartina, Partains, Sarpanit, partisan, tarapins, Paristan

• IPA(key): (Central) [əs.piˈɾan]

• IPA(key): (Balearic) [əs.piˈɾant]

• IPA(key): (Valencia) [as.piˈɾant]

aspirant m or f (masculine and feminine plural aspirants)

1. aspiring

aspirant m or f by sense (plural aspirants)

1. aspirant

• aspirar
• “aspirant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

aspirant

1. gerund of aspirar

aspirant c (singular definite aspiranten, plural indefinite aspiranter)

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• “aspirant” in Den Danske Ordbog
• IPA(key): /as.pi.ʁɑ̃/

aspirant m (plural aspirants, feminine aspirante)

1. aspirant
2. (military) officer candidate, officer designate, midshipman

• → German: Aspirant

aspirant (feminine aspirante, masculine plural aspirants, feminine plural aspirantes)

1. aspiring
2. sucking, extracting

aspirant

1. present participle of aspirer

• “aspirant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• partisan

aspīrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of aspīrō

Borrowed from French aspirant.

• IPA(key): /asˈpi.rant/
• Rhymes: -irant
• Syllabification: as‧pi‧rant

aspirant m pers (female equivalent aspirantka)

1. (literary) aspirant, candidate
2. (law enforcement) warrant officer (in the police)
3. (historical) Candidate of Sciences

• aspirancki

• aspirantura

• aspiracyjny

• aspiracja

• aspirata

• aspirator

• aspirować

• “aspirant”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• “aspirant”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French aspirant.

aspirant m (plural aspiranți, feminine equivalent aspirantă)

1. aspirant