THE MEANING OF SUCCESS

Definition of SUCCESS
1
obsolete : outcome, result
2
a : degree or measure of succeeding b : favorable or desired outcome; also : the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence
3
: one that succeeds
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Examples of SUCCESS

1. Success came easily to him.
2. She is country music's most recent success.
3. The growth of the tourism industry is one of the city's great successes.
4. An enormous popular and critical success, The Liars' Club was credited with (or blamed for) launching a new wave of memoir-writing. (Karr deflects this accusation: “I think memoir started with St. Augustine,” she told Salon in 1997.) —Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, Commonwe