success

name

1. A suburb of 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. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal.

   “His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.”

   “a glowing success”

2. Financial profitability.

   “Don't let success go to your head.”

   “Instead Nokia decided better to stick with what they knew worked - good, solid, reliable mobile phones of the kind that had brought them success until then.”

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. Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

   “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.”