Meaning of ACHIEVEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | u'cheevmunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] the action of accomplishing something |
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| | Synonyms: | | accomplishment |
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| | See Also: | | accomplished fact, action, arrival, attainment, base on balls, close call, close shave, completion, credit, deed, effort, enlisting, exploit, face saver, face saving, fait accompli, feat, freeing, going, haymaking, liberation, masterpiece, masterstroke, narrow escape, pass, performance, reaching, record, recruitment, release, sledding, smooth, squeak, squeaker, track record, walk | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*chieve"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. ach[`e]vement,
E. {Hatchment}.]
1. The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by
exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the
achievement of his object.
2. A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor,
boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
[The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far
surpass the most famous achievements of pagan
heroes. --Barrow.
The highest achievements of the human intellect.
--Macaulay.
3. (Her.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally
applied to the funeral shield commonly called {hatchment}.
--Cussans.
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplished fact, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, act, acta, action, administration, advent, adventure, alerion, animal charge, annulet, appearance, approach, argent, aristeia, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrival, attainment, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, blow, bold stroke, bordure, bringing to fruition, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, carrying out, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coming, commission, completion, conduct, consummation, coronet, coup, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, dealings, deed, device, difference, differencing, discharge, dispatch, doing, doings, eagle, effectuation, effort, enactment, endeavor, enterprise, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, execution, exploit, fait accompli, falcon, feat, fess, fess point, field, file, finish, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fruition, fulfillment, fur, fusil, garland, gest, go, griffin, gules, gyron, hand, handiwork, handling, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heroic act, honor point, impalement, impaling, implementation, inescutcheon, job, label, lion, lozenge, management, maneuver, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, measure, metal, mission accomplished, motto, move, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, operation, or, ordinary, orle, overproduction, overt act, pale, paly, passage, pean, performance, perpetration, pheon, proceeding, production, productiveness, purpure, quarter, quartering, reaching, realization, res gestae, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, step, stroke, stunt, subordinary, success, tenne, thing, thing done, tincture, torse, tour de force, transaction, tressure, turn, undertaking, unicorn, vair, vert, victory, work, works, wreath, yale |
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