success

4 definitions found

success - 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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success - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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
         ]

success - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Success, AR (town, FIPS 67550)
    Location: 36.45452 N, 90.72285 W
    Population (1990): 170 (77 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 72470
  Success, MO
    Zip code(s): 65570

success - 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