accomplishment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- First attested in the early 15th century.
- (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600.
- accomplish + -ment
- Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ.mənt/, /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/[1][2][3]
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]accomplishment (countable and uncountable, plural accomplishments)
- The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
- the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
- That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
- 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Book III:
- I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
- Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace ;
- Something accomplished; an achievement.
- Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
- 1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax[1], pages 183-84:
- 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.’
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the act of accomplishing
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that which completes
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achievement
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References
[edit]- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
- ^ “accomplishment”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “accomplishment”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- “accomplishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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