success
IPA: sʌksˈɛs
noun
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
- (business) Financial profitability.
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
- A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
- A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
- An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A surname.
Advertisement
Examples of "success" in Sentences
- With success after success, the team is elated.
- Coeducation was reinstated in 1970 with great success.
- During the subjugation of the Shanyue, Cong achieved great success.
- The murmur of great fortune and success filled the air over Glasgow.
- This role he embraced with great gusto and was successful in the task.
- In spite of these worrisome problems the partnership as a great success.
- In spite of these worrisome problems the partnership was a great success.
- In spite of these worrisome problems, the partnership as a great success.
- His genial good humour and confident bonhomie made the tour a great success.
- In fact, in that moment I knew the genuine definition of the word success and so did Will.
- The man whose mind is set firmly toward achievement does not appropriate success, _he is success_.
- At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another.
- Seems that the term success was poorly chosen and despite its context may have caused some concern to some.
- Won't that poor little mind of yours grapple with the fact that the Hawkins Alcomotive is a success -- a _success?
- Roy Hodgson, who was fired by Liverpool after 191 days, diagnoses a distortion of the term "success": a money-induced and society-driven mangling of perspective.
- So if a naturalist argument based on success is to succeed, some other naturalistically acceptable but non-question begging understanding of ˜success™ must be found.
- He said that the person who displaced that board had better not be encouraged by the success -- he said _success_ with a curious emphasis -- of the present experiment to attempt another trick of the kind.