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** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To gain (an object or desired result).
2. * [act=II]
3. * [63]
4. * [I]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1937 | author=w:George Orwell | title=w:The Road to Wigan Pier | location=New York | publisher=Harcourt, Brace | year_published=1958 | section=Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 82 | url=https://archive.org/details/roadtowiganpier00geor
|passage=[S]olitude is never easy to ATTAIN in a working-class home}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=w:Mohsin Hamid | title=w:The Reluctant Fundamentalist | location=Orlando | publisher=Harcourt | chapter=11 | page=157 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739488263/page/157
|passage=Where else could I [...] hope to ATTAIN such an impressive income?}}
1. [en] To reach or come to , by progression or motion ; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
2. * [act=V]
3. * [book=X]
4. * [page=150]
5. * [volume=I]
6. [en] To come or arrive, by motion, growth , bodily exertion , or effort s toward a place, object, state, etc.
7. * [Psalm]
8. * [Acts]
9. * 1782 , [William Cowper] , letter to Joseph Hill dated 11 [nbsp] November, 1782, in _Private Correspondence of William Cowper,_ London: Henry Colburn, 1824, Volume [nbsp] 1, p. [nbsp] 222, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/privatecorrespon01cowpuoft/page/222 </sup>
10. *: You may not, perhaps, live to see your trees ATTAIN to the dignity of timber—I, nevertheless, approve of your planting, and the disinterested spirit that prompts you to it.
11. * [canto=1]
12. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1874 | author=w:John Richard Green | title=w:A Short History of the English People | location=London | publisher=Macmillan | section=Chapter 2, Section 6, p. 90 | url=https://archive.org/details/ashorthistoryen00greegoog/page/n125
|passage=Few boroughs had as yet ATTAINED to power such as this,}}
1. [en] To get at the knowledge of.
2. * [section=II]
3. [en] To reach in excellence or degree .
4. * [chapter=Of Innovations]
5. [en] To reach a person after being behind them.
6. * [page-174]
**** Derived terms
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**** Related terms
{{col4|en |attainder |attainment |attaint |attainture }}
**** Translations
[to accomplish; to achieve]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: постигам (цел), добирам се до, [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
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*** Anagrams
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