Synonyms for successes
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : suhk-ses |
| Phonetic Transcription : səkˈsɛs |
Top 10 synonyms for successes Other synonyms for the word successes
- arrival
- ascendancy
- attainment
- bed of roses
- big hit
- clover
- consummation
- do well
- easy street
- éclat
- eminence
- flying colors
- fortune
- fruition
- good luck
- good times
- grand slam
- gravy train
- happy days
- hit
- killing
- lap of luxury
- laugher
- maturation
- prosperity
- realization
- reward
- savvy
- sensation
- snap
- strike
- successfulness
- triumph
- victory
- walkaway
- walkover
- win
Définition of successes
Origin :- 1530s, "result, outcome," from Latin successus "an advance, succession, happy outcome," from succedere "come after" (see succeed). Meaning "accomplishment of desired end" (good success) first recorded 1580s.
- The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]
- Success story is attested from 1925. Among the French phrases used in English late 19c. were succès d'estime "cordial reception given to a literary work out of respect rather than admiration" and succès de scandale "success (especially of a work of art) dependent upon its scandalous character."
- noun favorable outcome
- As already seen, we ask for difficulties to conquer, successes to achieve.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Her successes have varied inversely as the length of her trunk-hose.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 » by Various
- Of all his successes, this royal recognition was surely the one which pleased him most.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- With the first successes of the court the work of punishment began.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- I now thought I might boast of my successes to Turkey, but he was not pleased.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- That one shall be heir to all the successes of each of us and shall disclaim all the failures of each.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
- But the successes of the Romans brought them other things which were good.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- Their failures are no less conspicuous than their successes.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- But, duped by his successes, he had allowed pride to persuade him that he was really a writer.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
- Indeed, at the time of its first successes, it was the saving grace of England.
- Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
Antonyms for successes
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