Dictionary Definition
achievement n : the action of accomplishing
something [syn: accomplishment]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /əˈtʃiːvmənt/, /@"tSi:vm@nt/
Noun
- The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his/her object.
- A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
- In the context of "heraldry": An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. - Cussans
Translations
act of achieving or performing
- Danish: udførelse , præstation , resultat
- Finnish: saavutus
- German: Errungenschaft f, Vollendung f
- Japanese: 達成 (tassei), 到達 (tōtatsu), 業績 (gyōseki), 成果 (seika)
- Polish: dokonanie , osiągnięcie
- Russian: достижение, успех, свершение, выполнение, исполнение
great or heroic deed
- Danish: bedrift , præstation , resultat
- Finnish: saavutus
- German: Errungenschaft f, Vollendung f
- Polish: dokonanie , osiągnięcie
- Russian: подвиг, свершение
heraldry: escutcheon
- Finnish: vaakunakilpi
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- ttbc [[Albanian: arritje
- ttbc Dutch: prestatie f
- ttbc French: accomplissement m
- ttbc Hebrew: (1)
- ttbc Interlingua: accomplimento, complimento, realisation (1); facto (2)
- ttbc Italian: realizzazione f
- ttbc Portuguese: cumprimento , realização (1); feito (2);
- ttbc Spanish: realización f, logro m
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Extensive Definition
Achievement refers to an accomplishment.
Specifically, it may refer to:
- in heraldry:
- Achievement of Arms, a coat of arms
- Hatchment, a funeral shield specifically
- Achievement test for student assessment
- a point system with the Xbox, see Xbox Achievement system
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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