success

Meaning

  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.

Concepts

success

victory

achievement

prosperity

triumph

hit

accomplishment

good fortune

win

luck

conquest

effect

result

good luck

fortune

winner

attainment

outcome

efficacy

performance

fruition

gain

fulfilment

achiever

succeeder

passing

winning

coup

piece of luck

stroke of luck

fruitfulness

successfulness

succeed

abundance

achievements

wellbeing

aftermath

consequence

consistency

corollary

sequel

weal

good result

being a hit

safe hit

one flower

benefit

efficiency

eligibility

happy result

neighborhood

neighbourhood

reaching the mark

vicinity

successful man

effectiveness

flourish

eclat

field day

good fortunate

reach

celebrity

star

bitch goddess

felicity

good

making

mercy

up

realisation

cultural progress

effort

sacrifice

happiness

flying colors

good job

going

turn out well

successful person

improvement

solution

s

highflier

big time

home run

sleeper

smasher

wow

fluke

means

riches

good results

plenty

wealth

productivity

pluck

issue

well-being

hapiness

flourishing

facilitate

godspeed

fortunate

off the ground

successful

thriving

feat

Atari

Pyrrhic victory

sig

victories

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/səkˈsɛs/
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.

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