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[syn: achiever, winner, success, succeeder]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Success \Suc*cess"\, n. [L. successus: cf. F. succ[`e]s. See
Succeed.]
1. Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.]
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Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned
By due success. --Spenser.
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2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or
result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or
bad; the outcome of effort.
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Men . . . that are like to do that, that is
committed to them, and to report back again
faithfully the success. --Bacon.
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The tempter stood. --Milton.
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3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything
attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous
issue.
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Dream of success and happy victory! --Shak.
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Or teach with more success her son
The vices of the time to shun. --Waller.
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Military successes, above all others, elevate the
minds of a people. --Atterbury.
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4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable
results, as a play or a player. [Colloq.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
success
n 1: an event that accomplishes its intended purpose; "let's
call heads a success and tails a failure"; "the election
was a remarkable success for the Whigs" [ant: failure]
2: an attainment that is successful; "his success in the
marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success"
3: a state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great
success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with
success" [ant: failure]
4: a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be
the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply";
"if you want to be a success you have to dress like a
success" [syn: achiever, winner, success, succeeder]
[ant: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful
person]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "success":
Cadmean victory, Easy Street, Grand Guignol, KO, Passion play,
Pyrrhic victory, Tom show, accomplished fact, accomplishment,
achievement, affluence, antimasque, arrival, ascendancy,
attainment, audience success, ballet, bed of roses, big name, bomb,
broadcast drama, burlesque show, carrying out, celebrity,
championship, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, clover,
comedy drama, comer, comfort, conquest, consummation,
critical success, daytime serial, deanship, dialogue, discharge,
dispatch, do, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play,
dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, ease, easy circumstances,
easy victory, effectuation, epic theater, excellence, execution,
experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fait accompli, favor,
felicity, fleshpots, flop, fruition, fulfillment, gasser, giveaway,
go, good fortune, gracious life, gracious living, grand slam,
greatness, happening, happiness, hit, hit show, implementation,
improvisational drama, incomparability, inimitability, knockout,
landslide, landslide victory, lap of luxury, lead,
legitimate drama, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury,
majority, masque, mastery, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle,
miracle play, mission accomplished, monodrama, monologue,
moral victory, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue,
mystery, mystery play, one-upmanship, opera, pageant, panel show,
pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, performance, picnic, piece,
play, playlet, precedence, predominance, predomination,
preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative,
prestige, priority, privilege, problem play, production,
prosperity, prosperousness, psychodrama, pushover, quiz show,
radio drama, realization, review, revue, right-of-way,
runaway victory, security, seniority, sensation, sensational play,
serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skill, skit, soap,
soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, star,
straight drama, subdual, subduing, superiority, suspense drama,
tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama,
television play, the affluent life, the good life,
theater of cruelty, thriving condition, total theater,
total victory, transcendence, transcendency, triumph,
upward mobility, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show,
vehicle, velvet, victor, victory, virtuosity, walkaway, walkover,
weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, win, winner, winning,
winning streak, word-of-mouth success, work
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In
literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are
exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines
by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious
reason, "John A. Joyce."
The bard who would prosper must carry a book,
Do his thinking in prose and wear
A crimson cravat, a far-away look
And a head of hexameter hair.
Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat;
If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat.
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Success, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 180
Housing Units (2000): 85
Land area (2000): 0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67550
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.454579 N, 90.722971 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72470
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Success, AR
Success