achievement
/əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/ noun B1- The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
- A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
- An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
- An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game. · Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.
- The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
- The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
Plural achievements
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But she did hope fervently that she would be among the first ten at least, so that she might see Matthew’s kindly brown eyes gleam with pride in her achievement.
“I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.
She realized that reaching the final round was actually a great achievement.
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