Other forms: achievements
An achievement is something done successfully after effort. A great achievement, achievement gap, sense of achievement.
The effort is required — luck produces results but not achievements. In education the achievement gap is the measured difference in results between groups. In games an achievement is a badge for completing something. Note achieve, from a French verb meaning to finish.
1nounachievementSomething done successfully after effort.
“Passing the exam after failing it twice was a real achievement.”
achievement is a success.
Old French achevement comes from achever, to finish, from a chief, to a head. Chief is the same word.
Old French
achevement
Middle French
achevement
English, today
achievement
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French achevement, from Old French achevement. From Middle French achevement (compare Modern French achèvement), from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”); equivalent to achieve + ment. The heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA