Word Definition

Attain

  1. To overtake.
  2. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
  3. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
  4. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
  5. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
  6. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
  7. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
  8. Attainment.
  9. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.