A Topical Dictionary: Search for accomplishment

Dictionary Results For "accomplishment" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

French accomplissement, from accomplir

Pronunciation

RP: IPA: /əˈkɒmplɪʃmənt/

Noun

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
* My new accomplishment of dancing. - Churchill
* Accomplishments befitting a station. - Thackeray
* Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace. - Cowper

Translations

Dutch: voltooiing
Finnish: loppuunsaattaminen, päätökseen saattaminen

Japanese: 遂行(すいこう, suikō)
Spanish: logros

Dutch: prestatie
Finnish: saavutus

Japanese: 実績(じっせき, jisseki)

: hasil, hasil jerih payah. prestasi, hasil yang capai|dicapai

External links

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Accomplishment \Ac*com"plish*ment\ (-ment), n. [F.
accomplissement, fr. accomplir.]
1. The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion;
fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a
prophecy, etc.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly;
acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence
of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or
training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." --Churchill.
"Accomplishments befitting a station." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet accomplishment
n 1: the action of accomplishing something [syn: achievement]
2: an ability that has been acquired by training [syn: skill,
acquirement, acquisition, attainment]

Moby Dictionary
ability , accomplished fact , accomplishments , achievement ,
acquirement , acquisition of knowledge , acquisitions , act , acta ,
action , administration , advance , advancement , advent , adventure ,
amplification , answer , appearance , approach , arrival ,
ascertainment , attainment , attainments , blossoming , blow ,
bringing to fruition , clearing up , coming , commission , completion ,
conclusion , conduct , consummation , coup , cracking , culmination ,
dealings , decipherment , decoding , deed , denouement , determination ,
development , developmental change , discharge , disentanglement ,
dispatch , doing , doings , edification , education , effectuation ,
effort , elaboration , enactment , end , end result , endeavor ,
enlargement , enlightenment , enterprise , evolution ,
evolutionary change , evolvement , evolving , execution , expansion ,
explanation , explication , exploit , fait accompli , feat , finding ,
finding-out , finish , flowering , fortunate outcome , furtherance ,
gest , gift , go , gradual change , growth , hand , handiwork , handling ,
illumination , implementation , instruction , interpretation , issue ,
job , learning , liberal education , management , maneuver , maturation ,
measure , move , natural development , natural growth ,
nonviolent change , operation , outcome , overproduction , overt act ,
passage , performance , perpetration , proceeding , production ,
productiveness , progress , progression , prosperity ,
prosperous issue , reaching , realization , reason , res gestae ,
resolution , resolving , result , riddling , ripening , rise , skill ,
solution , solving , sophistication , sorting out , step ,
store of knowledge , stroke , stunt , success , talent , thing ,
thing done , tour de force , transaction , triumph , turn , undertaking ,
unraveling , unriddling , unscrambling , unspinning , untangling ,
untwisting , unweaving , upshot , victory , work , working , working-out ,
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