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(n)
One who tends to succeed; a winner.
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One who has won or often wins.
(adj)
Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
Something accomplished; an achievement.
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.
(adv)
In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
(military) a soldier fit for duty
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
The property of being effective, of achieving results.
A degree of ability to produce a desired effect; effectiveness.
An individual victory.
A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
The fulfillment of something worked for.
An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
(v)
(intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.
Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them.
Movement ahead or forward.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
Good luck.
Providing an end to something; decisive.
That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
The property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed.
(poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
(countable, often used after definite article) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
(countable) An opportunity or possibility.
The quality or degree of being strong.
The result or outcome of a cause.
An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
(intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
(uncountable) Employment.
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being widely liked or in favor with the people at large.
A person who is popular, especially at a school.
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
The status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame; celebrity.
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The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
(uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy; elation.
The termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
An account of real or fictional events.
(abbreviation) education.
Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
in a smooth manner; smooth
(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
Failed, not successful.
A tool for chopping.
A correct response.
A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
Small tools and materials used by artisans and craftsmen
(uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
(music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Alternative spelling of ǃKung. [A group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.]
The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
(N)
the ninth studio album by Liza Minnelli, released in October 1989.
an American early 1970s rock and pop music band based in New York City.
Archaic form of success. [The achievement of one's aim or goal.]
(military, slang, dated) Acronym of herrings in tomato sauce.
(Italian: I Trionfi) a 14th-century Italian series of poems, written by Petrarch in the Tuscan language.
a Canadian drama film, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2023.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Cordonnière, La – Film de François Bouvier".
A Lower Cross River language of Nigeria.
The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.
The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
Growing, thriving, prospering.
Power over all others.
The state or condition of being successful.
A lack of success.