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success
noun
1 success
An event that accomplishes its intended purpose.
Roget 734:
prosperity,
welfare,
well-being;
affluence
etc.
(wealth)
803;
success
etc.
731;
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 [Lat.],
Saturnian age;
golden time,
golden age;
bed of roses,
fat city [Coll.];
fat of the land,
milk and honey,
loaves and fishes.
made man,
lucky dog,
enfant gate [Fr.],
spoiled child of fortune.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†,
mushroom.
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Dutch: succes, welslagen
Polish: powodzenie, wzlot, sukces
2 success
An attainment that is successful.
3 success
A state of prosperity or fame.
Polish: sukces
4 success
A person with a record of successes:
— If you want to be a success you have to dress like a success.
synonyms: achiever, succeeder, winner.
Roget 731:
success,
successfulness;
speed;
advance
etc.
(progress)
282.
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
[make money],
windfall bold stroke,
master stroke;
ten strike [U.S.];
coup de maitre [Fr.],
checkmate;
half the battle,
prize;
profit
etc.
(acquisition)
775.
continued success;
good fortune
etc.
(prosperity)
734;
time well spent.
advantage over;
upper hand,
whip hand;
ascendancy,
mastery;
expugnation†,
conquest,
victory,
subdual†;
subjugation
etc.
(subjection)
749.
triumph
etc.
(exultation)
884;
proficiency
etc.
(skill)
698.
conqueror,
victor,
winner;
master of the situation,
master of the position,
top of the heap,
king of the hill;
achiever,
success,
success story.
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Dutch: uitvoerder, welgang
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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