Sense

1. to love or seek after honour, to be ambitious, emulous, jealous, to be jealous, to pride oneself, pursuing, object of ambition
2. to strive eagerly and emulously to do, endeavour earnestly, aspire, to be anxious that . .

Examples

• μέγιστον δὲ πάντων ἱερὰ καὶ τάφουσ αἰσχυνθέντεσ καὶ τὸ τῆσ Ῥόδου μέχρι τούτου ζηλωτὸν ὄνομα, παύσασθε τοῦ σεισμοῦ τούτου, ὃσ ὑμῖν πανταχοῦ συμπεριέρχεται, καὶ μὴ δευτέρων σχετλιωτέρων δεῖσθε, ἀλλὰ γένεσθε ἐν ὑμῶν αὐτῶν, ἵν’ ἡμεῖσ τε ἐφ’ ὑμῖν ὡσ ἑταίροισ ἀγαθοῖσ φιλοτιμώμεθα καὶ ὑμεῖσ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ὡσ οἱοίσ πείθειν ὅτου καιρὸσ ἀεί. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.