success

Definition

  • noun: the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame
  • noun: degree or measure of succeeding
  • synonyms: outcome, succession

Examples

  • He tried to repair the engine but 'without success'. [=he was not able to repair the engine]

  • He will never 'succeed in' this business. [=he will never be successful in this business]

  • I am one of the diet clinic's 'success stories'. [=the diet clinic was able to help me]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) -No. -Why's that? Lennon and McCartney, they were school friends, am I right? Charlie Parker didn't know anybody 'til Joe Jones threw a cymbal at his head. So that's your idea of success, huh? I think being the greatest musician of the th century is anybody's idea of success. Dying broke and drunk and full of heroin at the age of is not exactly my idea of success. I'd rather die drunk, broke at and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at and nobody remembered who I was. Ah, but your friends will remember you, that's the point. (..)
    2014 Whiplash