Achievement
Achievement noun - A successful result brought about by hard work.
Usage example: this improvement in your time for a 10K road race is quite an achievement!
Winner and achievement are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Winner" instead a noun "Achievement".
Winner
Winner noun - A person or thing that is successful.
Achievement and winner are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Achievement" instead a noun "Winner".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Lance Boyle brings this up in the intro to Megarace 2: "[The winner] is crowned King Megaracer 2, he experiences a sense of achievement, and returns in regal triumph to reality, where he will probably never readapt."
Source: So What Do We Do Now? - Freakonomics contains the examples of Winner Lane, whose most noted achievement was his criminal record and subsequent prison time, and Loser Lane, his brother, who ended up becoming much more successful (and now goes by "Lou").
Source: Ironic Name - Sure, an Oscar is a wonderful achievement for an actor, but Gossett said that it put him in acting limbo, since smaller productions didn't think they could afford him (since he's an Oscar winner) and big productions didn't think he could carry a movie on his own (since he won for Supporting Actor).
Source: Blessed With Suck / Real Life
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