| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
Synonyms: |
acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
Antonyms: |
failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | landslide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great victory |
Synonyms: |
advantage, clean sweep, conquest, defeat, grand slam, killing*, overthrow, superiority, sweep, triumph, win |
| Notes: | avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
Synonyms: |
Easy Street, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses, benefit, big hit, boom*, clover, consummation, do well, eminence, fame, flying colors, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, good times, grand slam, gravy train, happiness, happy days, hit, killing, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, successfulness, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, éclat |
Antonyms: |
failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | triumph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victory, achievement |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, ascendancy, attainment, big hit, big win, cinch, clean sweep, conquest, coup, feat, feather in cap, gain, grand slam, hit, hole in one, homer, pushover, riot, score, sell, sensation, shoo-in, smash-hit, splash, success, sure bet, sure thing, surmounting, takeover, the gold, tour de force, vanquishing, vanquishment, walkover, win |
Antonyms: |
disaster, failure, forfeit, loss |
| Main Entry: | victory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | win, success |
Synonyms: |
achievement, advantage, ascendancy, bull's-eye, clean sweep, conquest, control, defeat, defeating, destruction, dominion, feather in cap, gain, grand slam, hit, hole in one, killing*, laurels, mission accomplished, overthrow, prize, subjugation, superiority, supremacy, sweep, the gold, triumph, upper hand, upset, winning |
Antonyms: |
defeat, failure, forfeit, loss |
| Main Entry: | crowning achievement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | success story |
Synonyms: |
Meisterstuck, best seller, bull's-eye, chef d'oeuvre, classic, coup, crowning accomplishment, crowning stroke, feather in one's cap, grand slam, hole in one, home run, icing on the cake, masterpiece, masterwork, showpiece, smash hit, work of a master, work of a past master |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
crowned with success, effective, epinician, felicitous, flushed with success, in full swing, in the ascendant, prosperous, set up, succeeding, successful, triumphant, unbeaten, victorious, well
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