success

/səkˈsɛs/

意味: 成功

例文: Lena’s play was a great success.
　　  レナの劇は大成功だった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: achieve success(成功を収める), measure success(成功を測る), enjoy success(成功を楽しむ)

定義: 目標や目的を達成することや、良い結果を得ることを指します。成功は、個人の努力や能力、運などによって得られるもので、仕事や学業、スポーツなどさまざまな分野で使われます。成功は人によって異なる意味を持ち、他人と比較するのではなく、自分自身の基準で判断されることが多いです。

successは約9,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an event that accomplishes its intended purpose
Noun: an attainment that is successful
Noun: a state of prosperity or fame
Noun: a person with a record of successes

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

Noun: let’s call heads a success and tails a failure
Noun: the election was a remarkable success for the Whigs
Noun: his success in the marathon was unexpected
Noun: his new play was a great success
Noun: he is enjoying great success
Noun: he does not consider wealth synonymous with success
Noun: his son would never be the achiever that his father was
Noun: only winners need apply
Noun: if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): achiever, succeeder, success, winner

Antonyms(反意語): failure, loser

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): attainment, happening, person, prosperity

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, accession, accident, accompaniment, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, appearance, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, avalanche, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beard, bedfellow, beginning, bereaved, best, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, boom, brunet, bullfighter, buster, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, censor, chameleon, change, changer, charmer, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collapse, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contact, contemplative, contestant, convergence, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crash, crawler, creator, creature, credit, creditor, cripple, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, destiny, dieter, differentiator, disappearance, discharge, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, dresser, dribbler, drug user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elizabethan, emotional person, ending, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, episode, error, ethnic, eventuality, experience, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, failure, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, finish, fire, first-rater, flash, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, incident, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, interruption, introvert, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, juncture, junior, juvenile, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, leo, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, movement, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, news event, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, one-off, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outbreak, outburst, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, periodic event, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, pisces, pisser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, record, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, reverse, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, sagittarius, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, showman, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sound, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, strength, struggler, subject, success, supernumerary, supervention, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tapper, taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, thing, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, treat, trier, trouble, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, union, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, weasel, wellbeing, white, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, wonder, worker, worldling, yawner

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): barnburner, bell ringer, big time, bite, conquest, coup, first lady, flying colors, godspeed, great, highflier, hit, natural, overturn, passing, pay dirt, score, seduction, sleeper, solution, victory, winning

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: achieve, succeed, win

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): s

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検4級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anticipation, joy, positive