ambition vs view

ambition

noun
  • An object of an ardent desire. 

  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. 

  • A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. 

  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. 

verb
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. 

view

noun
  • An intention or prospect. 

  • A wake. 

  • The act of seeing or looking at something. 

  • A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. 

  • A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. 

  • An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. 

  • Something to look at, such as scenery. 

  • The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with 

  • The range of vision. 

  • A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. 

  • A point of view. 

  • A mental image. 

verb
  • To regard in a stated way. 

  • To look at. 

How often have the words ambition and view occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )