Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of accomplishing or finishing.
- n. Something accomplished successfully, especially by means of exertion, skill, practice, or perseverance. See Synonyms at feat1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; accomplishment: as, the achievement of one's object.
- n. That which is achieved; a great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or superior ability.
- n. In heraldry, an escutcheon or armorial shield. The proper expression is “achievement of arms,” and signifies a complete heraldic composition, whether the shield alone or the shield with crest, motto, and supporters, if any. The term achievement is applied especially to the escutcheon of a deceased person displayed at his obsequies, over his tomb, etc., distinctively called a funeral achievement, or more commonly a hatchment (which see). Synonyms Deed, Feat, Exploit, etc. See
feat .
Wiktionary
- n. The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his/her object.
- n. A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
- n. heraldry An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. - Cussans
- n. video games An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment.
- n. A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
- n. (Her.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called
hatchment .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the action of accomplishing something
Etymologies
- Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever ("to finish"). Compare Modern French achèvement, English hatchment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One day, thousands of years from now, after the devastating effects of climate change have successfully wiped out the majority of twenty-first century American culture through some cataclysmic disaster that leaves only ruins to be studied, much like how our society now studies ancient Babylon, the children of the future will be sitting in their futuristic classrooms watching the only remaining DVD of our era, which just so happens to be the first season of Big Time Rush, and the teacher is going to say, "This was the pinnacle of twenty-first century American musical achievement," and somewhere in the ethos (* insert name of composer who you feel best represents twenty-first century American musical achievement*) will cry out in despair.”
“Granted, it was a time when the graduation rate was a non-issue and the term achievement gap had yet to be coined.”
“But when you consider the magnitude of shifting from one conservative era to one in which government simply has to be deployed to tackle deep structural problems, the achievement is as significant as his election year.”
“That's what they are referring to, this renewal, this -- what they call achievement of enrichment at Netame (ph).”
“Quite apart from the remarkable nature of this achievement is the fact that this is merely another proof that even under the pressure of war and the heavy drain on manpower, the brains of Britain were never more vigorous and never more productive than they are today.”
“If one accomplishes something especially fine, his achievement is a source of admiration and joy to others: no heart suffers from another's wealth, but the triumph of one is a delight to all.”
“I'm sure the 'achievement' is great ... but it's slow, it looks terrible, and it can't handle things like GTK+ windows properly.”
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“Sen. Clinton may have succeeded in getting people to call her "Hillary" and to have made them feel resigned to her front-runnership, but what kind of achievement is that?”
“But perhaps Ephron’s main achievement is that she has always had the talent and courage to say things that others writers can’t or don’t.”
“April 23, 2010 at 8: 13 AM what if achievement is not ones goal?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘achievement’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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EN - eesily missspellable wirds
accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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FUN - World of Warcraft terminology
cloth wearing player, new player, paladin specifica..., achievement, additional monster, sex, location, agility equivalen..., old kingdom, alchemist, alliance, alterac valley and 424 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...21st century, a high level of a..., a long way, a long way to go, a lot to be done, a lot to do, achievement, action, action plan, action team, actual implementa..., advantage and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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result; product; instrument; means
pavement, adornment, measurement, disappointment, appointment, reappointment, government, management, development, department, movement, agreement and 40 more...
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Freedom to Read
freedom, read, liberty, success, enjoyment, learning, skill, ability, accomplishment, achievement, intellectual, joy and 11 more...
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Ansh grade 5
abolish, absurd, abuse, access, accomplish, achievement, alternate, altitude, antagonist, antonym, anxious, apparent and 4 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for achievement.
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