Meaning of attained in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    attained

    Definitions

    1. achieved or reached

    Examples

    • « the actual attained achievement test score »

    Synonyms

Famous quotes

  • « If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. »
    Aristotle
  • « Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time. »
    Voltaire
  • « Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. »
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • « A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. »
    Joseph Story
  • « After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. »
    Stephen Harper

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