English Explanatory Dictionary

success

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
  2. Financial profitability.
  3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
  4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
  5. Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
name
  1. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  2. A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
  3. A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
  4. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
  5. An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
  6. An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
  7. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  8. A surname.

Pronunciation

/səkˈsɛs/ en-us-success.ogg

Word forms

success successes successe

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

Synonyms

éclat hit

Antonyms

failure

Derived words

critical success factor customer success customer success manager don't mess with success first success distribution insuccess nonsuccess nothing succeeds like success roaring success successantly success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone successful successfully success has many fathers, failure is an orphan success is a great deodorant successism successless success message success metric success story succsex sweet smell of success unsuccess victim of one's own success
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