Achievement

n.	1.	The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
	2.	A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. [The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. - Macaulay.
	3.	(Her.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

Noun

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achievement - the action of accomplishing something Synonyms: accomplishment

To dream of an achievement, denotes that you will be greatly satisfied with the outcome of a situation or project. The bigger the achievement, the greater the satisfaction.accomplished fact, acquirement, acquisition, act, acta, action, administration, advent, adventure, alerion, animal charge, annulet, appearance, approach, argent, aristeia, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrival, 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, 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, fait accompli, falcon, 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, perpetration, pheon, proceeding, production, productiveness, purpure, quarter, quartering, reaching, 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

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