Attainer
to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain:
to attain one’s goals.
to come to or arrive at, especially after some labor or tedium; reach:
to attain the age of 96; to attain the mountain peak.
to arrive at or succeed in reaching or obtaining something (usually followed by to or unto):
to attain to knowledge.
to reach in the course of development or growth:
these trees attain to remarkable height.
verb
(transitive) to achieve or accomplish (a task, goal, aim, etc)
(transitive) to reach or arrive at in sp-ce or time: to attain old age
(intransitive) often foll by to. to arrive (at) with effort or exertion: to attain to glory
v.
c.1300, “to succeed in reaching,” from stem of old french ataindre (11c., modern french atteindre) “to come up to, reach, attain, endeavor, strive,” from vulgar latin -adtangere, from latin attingere “to touch, to arrive at,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + tangere “to touch” (see tangent). latin attingere had a wide range of meanings, including “to attack, to strike, to appropriate, to manage,” all somehow suggested by the literal sense “to touch.” related: attained; attaining.
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