success
/səkˈsɛs/ noun, proper noun
Forms successes successe
- noun The achievement of one's aim or goal. “His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.”
- noun (business) Financial profitability. “Don't let success go to your head.”
- noun One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals. “Scholastically, he was a success.”
- noun The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame. “She is country music's most recent success.”
- noun (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
- proper noun A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- proper noun A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
- proper noun A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
- proper noun An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
- proper noun A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- proper noun A surname.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.]
- noun That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Etymology [L. successus: cf. F. succès. See Succeed.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “success”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details