accomplishment

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accomplishment

  • /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ.mənt/ UK
  • /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/ UK
  • /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/ US

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* First attested in the early 15th century.

* (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600.

* accomplish + -ment

* Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir

noun accomplishments

  1. countable, uncountable The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment. the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
  2. countable, uncountable That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing.
  3. countable, uncountable Something accomplished; an achievement. Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
  4. countable, uncountable The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point. Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’

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Closest in meaning: achievement, attainment, acquirement, acquisition, skill, achieving, achieved, achieve, success, accomplished, completion, deed, furtherance, breakthrough, completed, finalisation

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noun the act of accomplishing

日本語遂行 suikō, 達成 tassei, 到達 tōtatsu, 業績 gyōseki, 成果 seika, 成績 seiseki
中文成就 chéngjiù, 成果 chéngguǒ, 成績 /成绩 chéngjì
हिन्दीउपलब्धि uplabdhi
Portuguêsrealização
Françaisaccomplissement
DeutschAusführung f Durchführung, Vollendung, Erfüllung
Italianorealizzazione, attuazione
Русскийдостиже́ние dostižénije
العربيةتَنْفِيذ tanfīḏ

noun that which completes

日本語実績 jisseki
中文才藝 /才艺 cáiyì
Portuguêsrealização
Françaisaccomplissement
DeutschFertigkeit, Errungenschaft, Fähigkeit
Italianocompletamento, concretizzazione
Русскийзаверше́ние zaveršénije

noun achievement

हिन्दीउपलब्धि uplabdhi
DeutschLeistung
Italianorisultato, traguardo

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@misc{accomplishment_2026,
  title = {accomplishment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accomplishment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}