success

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English

Alternative forms

• successe (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

   Antonym: failure
2. (business) Financial profitability.
3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th–18th c.]

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Further reading

• “success”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “success”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.