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• successe (archaic)

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.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

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

   Antonym: failure

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

   a glowing success

2. (business) Financial profitability.

   Don't let success go to your head.

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

   Scholastically, he was a success.

   The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

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

   She is country music's most recent success.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th–18th c.]
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

• “success”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “success”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.