success

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.
2. n. The gaining of fame or prosperity: an artist spoiled by success.
3. n. The extent of such gain.
4. n. One that is successful: The plan was a success.
5. n. Obsolete A result or an outcome.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Succession; order of sequence.
2. n. The termination of any affair, whether happy or (now rarely) unhappy; issue; result; consequence.
3. n. A favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; a termination which answers the purpose intended; prosperous issue; often, specifically, the gaining of money, position, or other advantage.
4. n. A successful undertaking or attempt; what is done with a favorable result: as, political or military successes.
5. n. One who or that which succeeds, especially in a way that is public or notorious: as, the speech was a success; he is a social success.

Wiktionary

1. n. business financial profitability.
2. n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Act of succeeding; succession.
2. n. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
3. n. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
4. n. colloq. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a person with a record of successes
2. n. a state of prosperity or fame
3. n. an attainment that is successful
4. n. an event that accomplishes its intended purpose