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Great accomplishment
Answer for the clue "Great accomplishment ", 11 letters:
achievement
Word definitions for achievement in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Achievement (1864–1872) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . In a career that lasted from April 1866 to June 1868 she ran twenty-three times and won sixteen races. She was arguably the best British two-year-old of either sex in 1866 when ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "act of completing" (something), from Middle French achèvement "a finishing," noun of action from Old French achever (see achieve ). Meaning "thing achieved" is recorded from 1590s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sense of achievement/satisfaction (= a feeling that you have achieved something good ) ▪ Even a small success gives a sense of achievement. academic achievements ▪ Girls’ academic achievements are at least as good ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the action of accomplishing something [syn: accomplishment ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatchment \Hatch"ment\ (-ment), n. [Corrupt. fr. achievement.] (Her.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It ...
Usage examples of achievement.
I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements, which were performed by strength and are described by ignorance.
Our great achievement was achieved--the possibility of the impossible was demonstrated, and Harris and I walked proudly into the great dining-room of the Riffelberg Hotel and stood our alpenstocks up in the corner.
How may we be faithful to that ideal of justice toward our inferior brethren, which underlies all humanitarian effort, and lack nothing in fidelity to Science to whose achievements we reverently look for the amelioration of the human race?
In the same way, other apparent anachronisms would be simply the achievements of races older than man.
Achievements so great as to cancel out the effect of the apologia itself.
His splendid achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious criticism.
I do not desire to undermine or in any way denigrate the achievements of Dr.
Settle, echoing the prophecy of Anchises, celebrate the achievement of the empire of Dulness through her subversion of all forms of culture.
Project Eaglet was a remarkable achievement that added greatly to our understanding of the physical sciences.
But the most far-reaching of his achievements was the elaboration, about 1859, jointly with G.
The Feoffees, as you know, have existed for five hundred years, helping the unfortunate, supporting the sick, giving burs aries and scholarships to deserving causes and I want to have a really good bash up here at Manston Hall to celebrate our achievements.
It had been no small achievement to have the cloth badges made, for such furbelows were a luxury in the war-straitened Confederacy, yet Faulconer had succeeded in having the insignia manufactured in France and then smuggled into Wilmington on a swift blockade-runner.
He had remained as Gauleiter of Berlin, and his achievements in reorganizing the party there as well as his talents for propaganda had favorably impressed the Fuehrer.
I had seen Premislas when he was a child, and had already heard reports of a notable achievement of his.
Many of his legislative achievements were based on ideas he had been propounding on the hustings for decades.