success
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English
Alternative forms
- successe (archaic)
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
- Antonym: failure
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
- a glowing success
- (business) Financial profitability.
- Don't let success go to your head.
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- Scholastically, he was a success.
- The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
- The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- She is country music's most recent success.
- (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
- I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.
Derived terms
Terms derived from success
- critical success factor
- customer success
- don't mess with success
- nothing succeeds like success
- roaring success
- successful
- successfully
- successism
- success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone
- success has many fathers, failure is an orphan
- success metric
- success story
- sweet smell of success
- victim of one's own success
Translations
achievement of one's aim or goal
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(business) financial profitability
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person who achieves his or her goals
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Further reading
- “success”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “success”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.