success

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: suc=cess
• COUNT in NET: 22 in 22 verses (in OT : 22 in 22 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

success, n. [L. successus: cf. F. succès. See Succeed.].

•  Act of succeeding; succession.  [1913 Webster]

  "Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned
  By due success."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.  [1913 Webster]

  "Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success."  [1913 Webster]

  "Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
  The tempter stood."  [1913 Webster]
•  The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.  [1913 Webster]

  "Dream of success and happy victory!"  [1913 Webster]

  "Or teach with more success her son
  The vices of the time to shun."  [1913 Webster]

  "Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

success, n.
1 the accomplishment of an aim; a favourable outcome (their efforts met with success).
2 the attainment of wealth, fame, or position (spoilt by success).
3 a thing or person that turns out well.
4 archaic a usu. specified outcome of an undertaking (ill success).

Idiom

success story a person's rise from poverty to wealth etc.

Etymology

L successus (as SUCCEED)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

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.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

success

Success

N success, successfulness, speed, advance, trump card, hit, stroke, score, lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke, direct hit, bull's eye, goal, point, touchdown, home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam, killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke, ten strike, coup de maitre, checkmate, half the battle, prize, profit, continued success, good fortune, time well spent, advantage over, upper hand, whip hand, ascendancy, mastery, expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual, subjugation, triumph, proficiency, conqueror, victor, winner, master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill, achiever, success, success story, succeeding, successful, prosperous, triumphant, flushed with success, crowned with success, victorious, on top, set up, in the ascendant, unbeaten (beat), well-spent, felicitous, effective, in full swing, successfully, well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly, a merveille, beyond all hope, to some purpose, to good purpose, to one's heart's content, veni vidi vici, the day being one's own, one's star in the ascendant, omne tulit punctum, bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria, cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, dies faustus, l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort, omnia vincit amor, love conquers all, peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, the race by vigor not by vaunts is won, vincit qui patitur, vincit qui se vincit, The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet, success, successfulness, speed, advance, trump card, hit, stroke, score, lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke, direct hit, bull's eye, goal, point, touchdown, home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam, killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke, ten strike, coup de maitre, checkmate, half the battle, prize, profit, continued success, good fortune, time well spent, advantage over, upper hand, whip hand, ascendancy, mastery, expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual, subjugation, triumph, proficiency, conqueror, victor, winner, master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill, achiever, success, success story, succeeding, successful, prosperous, triumphant, flushed with success, crowned with success, victorious, on top, set up, in the ascendant, unbeaten (beat), well-spent, felicitous, effective, in full swing, successfully, well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly, a merveille, beyond all hope, to some purpose, to good purpose, to one's heart's content, veni vidi vici, the day being one's own, one's star in the ascendant, omne tulit punctum, bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria, cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, dies faustus, l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort, omnia vincit amor, love conquers all, peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, the race by vigor not by vaunts is won, vincit qui patitur, vincit qui se vincit, The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Prosperity

N prosperity, welfare, well-being, affluence, success, thrift, roaring trade, good fortune, smiles of fortune, blessings, godsend, luck, good luck, run of luck, sunshine, fair weather, fair wind, palmy days, bright days, halcyon days, piping times, tide, flood, high tide, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, golden time, golden age, bed of roses, fat city, fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes, made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom, prosperous, thriving, in a fair way, buoyant, well off, well to do, well to do in the world, set up, at one's ease, rich, in good case, in full, in high feather, fortunate, lucky, in luck, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star, on the sunny side of the hedge, auspicious, propitious, providential, palmy, halcyon, agreeable, couleur de rose, prosperously, swimmingly, as good luck would have it, beyond all hope, one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs smooth, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos, felicitas multos habet amicos, felix se nescit amari, good luck go with thee, nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.