success
//səkˈsɛs//
Forms
- Plural
- successes
Definitions
1.The achievement of one's aim or goal.
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
2.Financial profitability.
- Don't let success go to your head.
- Instead Nokia decided better to stick with what they knew worked - good, solid, reliable mobile phones of the kind that had brought them success until then.
3.One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
- Scholastically, he was a success.
- Freightliner says trials with a new lower-emission fuel for its diesel fleet have been a success, raising its credentials as a supporter of reducing greenhouse gases.
4.The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- She is country music's most recent success.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #884
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin successus
From succēdō (“succeed”)
From sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”).