Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The achievement of one's aim or goal.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Financial profitability.
  3. (countable, uncountable) One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

Opposite of
failure
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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