'Success' definitions:
Definition of 'success'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
noun
An attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success"
noun
A state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with success" [ant: failure]
noun
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]
Definition of 'Success'
From: GCIDE
- Success \Suc*cess"\, n. [L. successus: cf. F. succ[`e]s. See Succeed.]
- 1. Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. [1913 Webster]
- Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue. [1913 Webster]
- Dream of success and happy victory! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'success'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- affluence,
- antimasque,
- arrival,
- ascendancy,
- attainment,
- audience success,
- ballet,
- bed of roses,
- big name,
- bomb,
- broadcast drama,
- burlesque show,
- Cadmean victory,
- 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 Street,
- 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 Guignol,
- grand slam,
- greatness,
- happening,
- happiness,
- hit,
- hit show,
- implementation,
- improvisational drama,
- incomparability,
- inimitability,
- knockout,
- KO,
- 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,
- Passion play,
- 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,
- Pyrrhic victory,
- 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,
- Tom show,
- 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
Success, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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.
Words containing 'Success'
- Successful,
- Successfully,
- Successfulness,
- Succession,
- Successive,
- Successively,
- Successiveness,
- in succession,
- Apostolical succession,
- Lake Success,
- Singular succession,
- Success, AR,
- Succession duty,
- Succession of crops,
- Successive induction,
- Vacant succession,
- chronological succession,
- ecological succession,
- line of succession,
- Lake Success, NY,
- war of the austrian succession,
- war of the spanish succession