Usually means: Achieve or gain through effort.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. attain: Merriam-Webster
  2. attain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attain, attain: Wordnik
  7. attain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. attain: Wiktionary
  9. attain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. attain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Attain, attain: Dictionary.com
  13. attain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. attain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Attain (consulting firm): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Attain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. attain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. attain: Rhymezone
  19. attain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. attain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. attain: FreeDictionary.org
  22. attain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. attain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. attain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. attain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. attain: Merriam-Webster

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  1. attain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. attain: Sound Alike Words
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  1. ATTAIN: Acronym Finder

(Note: See attainability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).
verb:  (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To get at the knowledge of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reach in excellence or degree.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reach a person after being behind them.

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