different between menage vs success

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman meinage, maynage, Old French mainage, menage, from manoir (“to stay”), maneir, maindre.

Noun

menage (plural menages)

1. Alternative form of ménage

Anagrams

• Meegan, manege, manège

Danish

Etymology

From French ménage (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mena?sj?/, [me?næ???]

Noun

menage c (singular definite menagen, plural indefinite menager)

1. menage
2. mess
3. menagerie

Inflection

Synonyms

• (menagerie): menageri

English

Alternative forms

• successe (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succ?d? (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + c?d? (“go, move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

   His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

   Antonym: failure

2. (business) Financial profitability.

   Don't let success go to your head.

3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

   Scholastically, he was a success.

   The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

   She is country music's most recent success.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

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Further reading

• success in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• success in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.