Crossword-Solution: ATTAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Attain | v. t. | To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. |
| Attain | v. t. | To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. |
| Attain | v. t. | To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. |
| Attain | v. t. | To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at. |
| Attain | v. t. | To overtake. |
| Attain | v. t. | To reach in excellence or degree; to equal. |
| Attain | v. i. | To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach. |
| Attain | v. i. | To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. |
| Attain | n. | Attainment. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ATTAIN | anagram | TAANIT, TITANA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ATTAIN (5)
And I will place within them as a guide My Umpire _Conscience_, whom if they will hear, Light after light well us’d they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result.
Archie could never attain for all the efforts of his faithful slave, Van Deusen, the Denver haberdasher.
Permit me To hear thee when I come (since no man comes), And talk at least, though I despair to attain.
Quotes with ATTAIN (3)
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 162 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).