• (British, America) IPA: /səkˈsɛs/

success

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

   Antonyms: 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]
   • 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.

• French: succès
• German: Erfolg
• Italian: successo
• Portuguese: sucesso, êxito
• Russian: успе́х
• Spanish: éxito, acierto

• Portuguese: sucesso
• Russian: успе́х

• Portuguese: sucesso

1. A suburb in Perth, Western Australia.
2. A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
3. A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
4. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
5. An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
6. An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
7. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
8. Surname.