how to pronounce aspire

/əsˈpaɪɹ/

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aspire is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of aspire in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… journalism or whatever you aspire to be …”

meaning of aspire

Aspire means to have a strong desire to achieve something.

aspire frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word aspire occurs in english on average 4.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics aspire can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that aspire can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;