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success

/səkˈsɛs/

success noun: the achievement of one's aim or goal.

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

  1. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
    • His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
    • a glowing success
    Synonyms:
    hit
    Antonyms:
    failure
  2. Financial profitability.
    • Don't let success go to your head.
    • Instead Nokia decided better to stick with what they knew worked - good, solid, reliable mobile phones of the kind that had brought them success until then.2013 September 24, Noreena Hertz, “Noreena Hertz: Don’t get stuck in your own success”, in CNN
  3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
    • Scholastically, he was a success.
    • The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
  4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
    • She is country music's most recent success.
  5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
    • I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Success

Success

  1. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  2. A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
  3. A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
  4. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
  5. An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
  6. An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
  7. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  8. A surname.

success meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

success in Hindi

achievement of one's aim or goal
सफलता saphaltā, कामयाबी kāmyābī, साफल्य sāphalya

success in Tamil

achievement of one's aim or goal
வெற்றி veṟṟi

success in Marathi

achievement of one's aim or goal
यश yaś

success in Urdu

achievement of one's aim or goal
کامْیابی kāmyābī, سَپَھلْتا saphaltā
More languagesFewer languages
success in Bengali
কামিয়াবি kamiẏabi, সফলতা śôphôlôta, সাফল্য śaphôllô
success in Telugu
లక్ష్యాన్ని చేరుట lakṣyānni cēruṭa, ఆర్ధిక స్తొమత ārdhika stomata, సాధకుడు లేక సాధకురాలు sādhakuḍu lēka sādhakurālu
success in Malayalam
സഫലം saphalaṁ
success in Kannada
ಯಶಸ್ಸು yaśassu
success in Punjabi
ਸਫ਼ਲਤਾ, ਸਫਲਤਾ
success in Gujarati
સફળતા
success in Odia
ପ୍ରସିଦ୍ଧି prasiddhi, ଜୟ jaya, ସମ୍ପତ୍ତି sampatti
success in Sanskrit
स्वस्ति svasti
success in Nepali
सफलता
success in Pashto
کامراني kāmrāni
success in Tagalog
tagumpay
success in Arabic
نَجَاح najāḥ
success in Indonesian
keberhasilan, kesuksesan
success in Thai
ความสำเร็จ kwaam-sǎm-rèt, ผลสำเร็จ pǒn-sǎm-rèt
success in Vietnamese
sự thành công, thành công
success in Myanmar
ဇေယျ jeyya., အောင်ပန်း aungpan:

Examples of success in a sentence

  • This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal.1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of...
  • There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.1998, Gavin Dillard, In the Flesh: Undressing for Success, page 141:
  • Freightliner says trials with a new lower-emission fuel for its diesel fleet have been a success, raising its credentials as a supporter of reducing greenhouse gases.2021 December 1, “Network News: Freightliner claims emissions success”, in RAIL, number 945, page 15:

All 40 example sentences with success

Synonyms of success

Antonyms

Forms of success

pluralsuccesses
alternative form (archaic)successe

Plural of success: successes

Origin of success

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”).

Words formed from success

Phrases with success

Words that rhyme with success

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Questions about success

What does success mean?
Success means the achievement of one's aim or goal.
What is success in Hindi?
Success in Hindi is सफलता (saphaltā), कामयाबी (kāmyābī), साफल्य (sāphalya). See Success meaning in Hindi.
How do you use success in a sentence?
This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal.
What part of speech is success?
Success can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce success?
Success is pronounced /səkˈsɛs/.
What is the plural of success?
The plural of success is successes.

Words near success in the dictionary

  1. succentors
  2. succenturiate
  3. succenturiated
  4. succes de scandale
  5. succesful
  6. success
  7. success ballast
  8. success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone
  9. success has many fathers, failure is an orphan
  10. success is a great deodorant
  11. success message

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: success (page history and authors); Success (page history and authors); സഫലം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); success (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); success (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଜୟ (Odia) (page history and authors); success (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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