achievement
IPA: ʌtʃˈivmʌnt
noun
- The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
- A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
- (heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
- (video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
- (sociology) The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
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Examples of "achievement" in Sentences
- Both of these achievements remain unsurpassed.
- Assess the achievement of the acquisition goal.
- The best achievement in the game is winning the double.
- That's what they are referring to, this renewal, this -- what they call achievement of enrichment at Netame (ph).
- Granted, it was a time when the graduation rate was a non-issue and the term achievement gap had yet to be coined.
- I'm sure the 'achievement' is great ... but it's slow, it looks terrible, and it can't handle things like GTK+ windows properly.
- But perhaps Ephron’s main achievement is that she has always had the talent and courage to say things that others writers can’t or don’t.
- Sen. Clinton may have succeeded in getting people to call her "Hillary" and to have made them feel resigned to her front-runnership, but what kind of achievement is that?
- If one accomplishes something especially fine, his achievement is a source of admiration and joy to others: no heart suffers from another's wealth, but the triumph of one is a delight to all.
- But when you consider the magnitude of shifting from one conservative era to one in which government simply has to be deployed to tackle deep structural problems, the achievement is as significant as his election year.
- Quite apart from the remarkable nature of this achievement is the fact that this is merely another proof that even under the pressure of war and the heavy drain on manpower, the brains of Britain were never more vigorous and never more productive than they are today.
- One day, thousands of years from now, after the devastating effects of climate change have successfully wiped out the majority of twenty-first century American culture through some cataclysmic disaster that leaves only ruins to be studied, much like how our society now studies ancient Babylon, the children of the future will be sitting in their futuristic classrooms watching the only remaining DVD of our era, which just so happens to be the first season of Big Time Rush, and the teacher is going to say, "This was the pinnacle of twenty-first century American musical achievement," and somewhere in the ethos (* insert name of composer who you feel best represents twenty-first century American musical achievement*) will cry out in despair.