Meaning of 憧れ in Japanese

Definition of 憧れ

あこがれ(akogare) 【憧れ ·憬れ】

(n, adj-no) yearning; longing; aspiration
彼は彼女の恵まれた才能にあこがれを抱いた。
He longed for her talented skills.

あこがれる(akogareru) 【憧れる ·憬れる ·憧憬れる】

あこがれのまと(akogarenomato) 【憧れの的】

先ずまずは憧れあこがれの作家さっかの文章ぶんしょうの呼吸こきゅうをつかむためにひたすら筆写ひっしゃ、丸写しまるうつしをする。

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What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.

彼かれは彼らかれらが名声めいせいに憧れていると思った。

He thought of them yearning for fame.

同時通訳どうじつうやくが彼女の憧れあこがれだ。

Her dream is to become a simultaneous interpreter.

晴耕雨読せいこううどくの人生じんせいにも少々しょうしょうは憧れるあこがれるけれど、僕ぼくにはそんな生き方いきかた、３日にちももたないだろうな。

I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.

We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.