different between success vs cess

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Etymology uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success.. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
3. (obsolete) Bound; measure.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (Britain, Ireland) To levy a cess.

Derived terms

• bad cess

See also

• cease
• cessation

Etymology 2

Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
2. (obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
3. (obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.

Derived terms

• cess path
• cess heave

See also

• cesspool
• cesspit

Etymology 3

From French cesser. See cease.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.

Anagrams

• CSEs, ECSS, ESCs, secs, secs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Cess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

cess m (definite singular cessen, indefinite plural cessar, definite plural cessane)

1. (music) C-flat

Derived terms

• cess-dur m

Swedish

Noun

cess n

1. C-flat

Declension

Related terms

• ciss

References