'achievement' definitions:
Definition of 'achievement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The action of accomplishing something [syn: accomplishment, achievement]
Definition of 'achievement'
From: GCIDE
- Hatchment \Hatch"ment\ (-ment), n. [Corrupt. fr. achievement.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (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 is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. [1913 Webster]
- His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity. [1913 Webster]
- Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'achievement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- acquirement,
- acquisition,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- administration,
- advent,
- adventure,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- appearance,
- approach,
- argent,
- aristeia,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- arrival,
- attainment,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- blow,
- bold stroke,
- bordure,
- bringing to fruition,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- carrying out,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- coming,
- commission,
- completion,
- conduct,
- consummation,
- coronet,
- coup,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- dealings,
- deed,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- doing,
- doings,
- eagle,
- effectuation,
- effort,
- enactment,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- execution,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- falcon,
- feat,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- finish,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fruition,
- fulfillment,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- gest,
- go,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- heroic act,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- implementation,
- inescutcheon,
- job,
- label,
- lion,
- lozenge,
- management,
- maneuver,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- measure,
- metal,
- mission accomplished,
- motto,
- move,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- operation,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- overproduction,
- overt act,
- pale,
- paly,
- passage,
- pean,
- performance,
- perpetration,
- pheon,
- proceeding,
- production,
- productiveness,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- reaching,
- realization,
- res gestae,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- shield,
- spread eagle,
- step,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- subordinary,
- success,
- tenne,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- tressure,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vert,
- victory,
- work,
- works,
- wreath,
- yale