success

Signification

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. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/səkˈsɛs/

Étymologie

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.

Phrases

For years , despite the success of his songs , Vanzolini never recorded an album .

Pendant des années, malgré le succès de ses chansons, Vanzolini n'a jamais enregistré d'album.

Delonge attributed much of its success to the simplicity of the rules .

Delonge a attribué une grande partie de son succès à la simplicité des règles.