achievement

a-chieve-ment · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage.

  2. 2.

    The process or fact of achieving something.

Forms

plural: achievements

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    sense of achievement — A feeling of pride in what one has accomplished.
  • •
    lifetime achievement — Recognition for a career's worth of accomplishments.
  • •
    achievement gap — The disparity in academic performance between groups.
  • •
    no mean achievement — Something difficult that deserves recognition.

Related words

Antonyms: defeat, failure
See also: accomplishment, achieve, achievements
Synonyms: accomplishment, attainment, feat, triumph

Etymology

From Old French achever ("to finish, accomplish") + -ment. "Achever" comes from the phrase a chef ("to a head, to an end"), from Latin caput ("head").