Success

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Success \Suc*cess"\, n. [L. successus: cf. F. succ[`e]s. See
     {Succeed}.]
     1. Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.]
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              Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned


              By due success.                       --Spenser.
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     2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or
        result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or
        bad; the outcome of effort.
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              Men . . . that are like to do that, that is
              committed to them, and to report back again
              faithfully the success.               --Bacon.
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              Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
              The tempter stood.                    --Milton.
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     3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything
        attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous
        issue.
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              Dream of success and happy victory!   --Shak.
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              Or teach with more success her son
              The vices of the time to shun.        --Waller.
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              Military successes, above all others, elevate the
              minds of a people.                    --Atterbury.
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     4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable
        results, as a play or a player. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  success
       n 1: an event that accomplishes its intended purpose; "let's call
            heads a success and tails a failure"; "the election was
            a remarkable success for Republicans" [ant: {failure}]
       2: an attainment that is successful; "his success in the
          marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great
          success"
       3: a state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great
          success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with
          success" [ant: {failure}]
       4: a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be
          the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need
          apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress
          like a success" [syn: {achiever}, {winner}, {succeeder}]
          [ant: {failure}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  202 Moby Thesaurus words for "success":
     Cadmean victory, Easy Street, Grand Guignol, KO, Passion play,
     Pyrrhic victory, Tom show, accomplished fact, accomplishment,
     achievement, affluence, antimasque, arrival, ascendancy,
     attainment, audience success, ballet, bed of roses, big name, bomb,
     broadcast drama, burlesque show, carrying out, celebrity,
     championship, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, clover,
     comedy drama, comer, comfort, conquest, consummation,
     critical success, daytime serial, deanship, dialogue, discharge,
     dispatch, do, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play,
     dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, ease, easy circumstances,
     easy victory, effectuation, epic theater, excellence, execution,
     experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fait accompli, favor,
     felicity, fleshpots, flop, fruition, fulfillment, gasser, giveaway,
     go, good fortune, gracious life, gracious living, grand slam,
     greatness, happening, happiness, hit, hit show, implementation,
     improvisational drama, incomparability, inimitability, knockout,
     landslide, landslide victory, lap of luxury, lead,
     legitimate drama, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury,
     majority, masque, mastery, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle,
     miracle play, mission accomplished, monodrama, monologue,
     moral victory, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue,
     mystery, mystery play, one-upmanship, opera, pageant, panel show,
     pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, performance, picnic, piece,
     play, playlet, precedence, predominance, predomination,
     preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative,
     prestige, priority, privilege, problem play, production,
     prosperity, prosperousness, psychodrama, pushover, quiz show,
     radio drama, realization, review, revue, right-of-way,
     runaway victory, security, seniority, sensation, sensational play,
     serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skill, skit, soap,
     soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, star,
     straight drama, subdual, subduing, superiority, suspense drama,
     tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama,
     television play, the affluent life, the good life,
     theater of cruelty, thriving condition, total theater,
     total victory, transcendence, transcendency, triumph,
     upward mobility, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show,
     vehicle, velvet, victor, victory, virtuosity, walkaway, walkover,
     weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, win, winner, winning,
     winning streak, word-of-mouth success, work
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  SUCCESS, n.  The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.  In
  literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are
  exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines
  by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious
  reason, "John A. Joyce."
  
      The bard who would prosper must carry a book,
          Do his thinking in prose and wear
      A crimson cravat, a far-away look
          And a head of hexameter hair.
      Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat;
      If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat.
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Success, AR (town, FIPS 67550)
    Location: 36.45452 N, 90.72285 W
    Population (1990): 170 (77 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 72470
  Success, MO
    Zip code(s): 65570

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Success, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
     Population (2000):    180
     Housing Units (2000): 85
     Land area (2000):     0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            67550
     Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
     Location:             36.454579 N, 90.722971 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     72470
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Success, AR
      Success