successes
successes is the plural of success.
Meaning of success
Noun
success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
- Financial profitability.
- Don't let success go to your head.
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- Scholastically, he was a success.
- The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- She is country music's most recent success.
- 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
Phrases with successes
Questions about successes
- What is successes the plural of?
- Successes is the plural of success.
Words near successes in the dictionary
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