accomplishment

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “accomplishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

• First attested in the early 15th century.
• (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600.
• accomplish +‎ -ment
• Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/
• IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkɒm.plɪʃ.mənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

accomplishment (countable and uncountable, plural accomplishments)

1. The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfillment

   the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc

2. 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 ;

3. Something accomplished; an achievement.
4. (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
   • 1997, Robert van Valin and 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.’

Translations

the act of accomplishing

• Arabic: تَنْفِيذ m (tanfīḏ)
• Belarusian: дасягне́нне n (dasjahnjénnje)
• Bulgarian: постиже́ние (bg) n (postižénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成就 (zh) (chéngjiù), 成果 (zh) (chéngguǒ), 成績／成绩 (zh) (chéngjì), 成绩 (zh) (chéngjì)

• Dutch: voltooiing (nl) f
• Esperanto: plenumo, kompletigo
• Finnish: toteuttaminen (fi), toteutuminen (fi), aikaansaanti
• French: accomplissement (fr) m
• Galician: logro m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Ausführung (de) f Durchführung (de) f, Vollendung f, Erfüllung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐍅 n (waurstw)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: realizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 遂行 (すいこう, suikō), 達成 (ja) (たっせい, tassei), 到達 (ja) (とうたつ, tōtatsu), 業績 (ja) (ぎょうせき, gyōseki), 成果 (ja) (せいか, seika), 成績 (ja) (せいせき, seiseki)
• Macedonian: достигнување n (dostignuvanje)
• Maori: whakatutukitanga
• Portuguese: realização (pt) f
• Russian: достиже́ние (ru) n (dostižénije)
• Spanish: logro (es) m, éxito (es) m
• Swedish: fullbordan c, utförande (sv) n

that which completes

• Bulgarian: завършване (bg) n (zavǎršvane), изпълнение (bg) n (izpǎlnenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結束／结束 (zh) (jiéshù), 结束 (zh) (jiéshù)

• Dutch: prestatie (nl) f
• Finnish: saavutus (fi)
• French: accomplissement (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Fertigkeit (de) f, Errungenschaft (de) f, Fähigkeit (de) f
• Japanese: 実績 (ja) (じっせき, jisseki)
• Maori: whakatutukitanga, haumāuiui
• Portuguese: realização (pt) f
• Russian: заверше́ние (ru) n (zaveršénije)
• Swedish: bedrift (sv) c

achievement

• Finnish: aikaansaannos (fi), saavutus (fi)
• German: Leistung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: κατόρθωμα n (katórthōma)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Maori: haumāuiui
• Swedish: bedrift (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Indonesian: hasil (id), hasil jerih payah, prestasi, hasil yang dicapai
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} talento (it) m

Further reading

• “accomplishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.