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successes

successes is the plural of success.

Meaning of success

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.
    Synonyms:
    hit
    Antonyms:
    failure
  2. Financial profitability.
    • Don't let success go to your head.
  3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
    • Scholastically, he was a 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

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Phrases with successes

Questions about successes

What is successes the plural of?
Successes is the plural of success.

Words near successes in the dictionary

  1. success metrics
  2. success stories
  3. success story
  4. successantly
  5. successe
  6. successes
  7. successful
  8. successfull
  9. successfully
  10. successfulness
  11. succession

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