Accomplishment vs Achieve - What's the difference?
accomplishment | achieve |
The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
* My new accomplishment of dancing. -
* Accomplishments befitting a station. -
* Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace. -
Something accomplished; an achievement.
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
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* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
As a noun accomplishment
is the act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.As a verb achieve is
to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.accomplishment
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* (l) (obsolete )Verb
(achiev)- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
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- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.