success

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.
• noun The gaining of fame or prosperity.
• noun The extent of such gain.
• noun One that is successful.
• noun Archaic A result or an outcome.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Succession; order of sequence.
• noun The termination of any affair, whether happy or (now rarely) unhappy; issue; result; consequence.
• noun A favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; a termination which answers the purpose intended; prosperous issue; often, specifically, the gaining of money, position, or other advantage.
• noun A successful undertaking or attempt; what is done with a favorable result: as, political or military successes.
• noun One who or that which succeeds, especially in a way that is public or notorious: as, the speech was a success; he is a social success.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Act of succeeding; succession.
• noun That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• noun The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
• noun colloq. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun business financial profitability.
• noun One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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