Definitions for achieve
əˈtʃivachieve

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. achieve, accomplish, attain, reachverb

   to gain with effort

   "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

Wiktionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. achieveverb

   To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

2. achieveverb

   To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

3. achieveverb

   To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

4. achieveverb

   To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

5. achieveverb

   To conclude, to turn out.

6. achieveverb

   To obtain (a material thing).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To ACHIEVEverb

   Etymology: achever, Fr. to complete.

   1. To perform, to finish a design prosperously.

   Our toils, my friends, are crown’d with sure success:
   The greater part perform’d, achieve the less. John Dryden, Æneid.

   2. To gain, to obtain.

   Experience is by industry achiev’d,
   And perfected by the swift course of time. William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona.

   Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
   If I achieve not this young modest girl. William Shakespeare, Taming the Shrew.

   Thou hast achiev’d our liberty, confin’d
   Within hell-gates till now. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ii. l. 368.

   Show all the spoils by valiant kings achiev’d,
   And groaning nations by their arms reliev’d. Matthew Prior.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Achieveverb

   to carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise

2. Achieveverb

   to obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win

3. Achieveverb

   to finish; to kill

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Achieve

   a-chēv′, v.t. to bring to a head or end: to perform: to accomplish: to carry out successfully: to gain, win.—adj. Achiev′able, that may be achieved.—n. Achieve′ment, a performance: an exploit: an escutcheon or armorial shield granted in memory of some achievement, applied especially to the escutcheon over the tomb of a dead person, generally called a hatchment. [Fr. achever, from à chief (venir)—Low L. ad caput venire, to come to a head. See Chief.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. achieve

   To succeed.

   We always achieve our goals in an efficient way as we are united.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 12, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'achieve' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1563

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'achieve' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1675

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'achieve' in Verbs Frequency: #135

How to pronounce achieve?

1. Alex

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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How to say achieve in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of achieve in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of achieve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of achieve in a Sentence

1. Kyle Kondik:

   While individual Democratic candidates disagree with one another on the speed with which to achieve universal healthcare coverage, I don't think there's that much disagreement that that is a goal of the Democratic Party.

2. Tayyip Erdogan:

   God willing, Turkey will start flying with this system... With this system, we will achieve what others cannot imagine.

3. Pearl S. Buck:

   The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

4. Lawrence Durrell:

   It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

5. Matthew Fitzpatrick:

   The feeling’s out of this world, it is so cliche, but it’s stuff you dream of as a kid. Yeah, to achieve it, I can retire a happy man tomorrow.

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