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success
[ suhk-ses ]
noun
- the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
- the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
Synonyms: triumph, accomplishment, achievement
- a performance or achievement that is marked by success, as by the attainment of honors:
The play was an instant success.
- a person or thing that has had success, as measured by attainment of goals, wealth, etc.:
She was a great success on the talk show.
- Obsolete. outcome.
success
/ səkˈsɛs /
noun
- the favourable outcome of something attempted
- the attainment of wealth, fame, etc
- an action, performance, etc, that is characterized by success
- a person or thing that is successful
- obsolete.any outcome
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Derived Forms
- sucˈcessless, adjective
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Other Words From
- suc·cessless adjective
- suc·cessless·ly adverb
- suc·cessless·ness noun
- nonsuc·cess noun
- presuc·cess noun
- semi·suc·cess adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of success1
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Example Sentences
As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
This was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.
He will tell you about the success he had in America; it quite makes up for the defeat of the British army in the Revolution.
But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.
Great preparations had been made, and the success must have been perfect to win so general and hearty a commendation.
In Paris, Joachim soon found that the royal road to success lay in denouncing loudly all superior officers of lack of patriotism.
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