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success

noun
/səkˈsɛs/

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.

  1. learned borrowing from successus

Definitions

  1. The achievement of one's aim or goal.

    • His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
    • a glowing success

  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.

  3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

    • Scholastically, he was a success.
    • The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

      • She is country music's most recent success.

    2. Something which happens as a consequence

      Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

    3. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

    4. A town in Clay County, Arkansas.

    5. A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.

    6. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.

    7. An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.

    8. An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.

    9. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

    10. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

critical success factor, customer success, customer success manager, don't mess with success, first success distribution, insuccess, nonsuccess, nothing succeeds like success, roaring success, successantly, success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone, successful, successfully, success has many fathers, failure is an orphan, success is a great deodorant, successism, successless, success message, success metric, success story, succsex, sweet smell of success, unsuccess, victim of one's own success

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at success. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01success02profitability03profit04flow05idea06shape07health08well-being09prosperity10prosperous

A definitional loop anchored at success. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at success

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA