attainment - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'attainment' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Attainment

[ n.]

- The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
- That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.

Meaning of 'attainment' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . attainment

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- arrival at a new stage

Example in sentence:

his attainment of puberty was delayed by malnutrition

Meaning (2):
- the act of achieving an aim

Example in sentence:

the attainment of independence

Nearby Words:

attabal attacca attach attachable attache attached attaching attachment attack attackable

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Status attainment
Status attainment is the process through which people arrive at a given position within a stratified system.

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