'Succession' definitions:
Definition of 'succession'
(from WordNet)
noun
A following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession]
noun
A group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"
noun
The action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: succession, sequence]
noun
(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established [syn: succession, ecological succession]
noun
Acquisition of property by descent or by will [syn: succession, taking over]
Definition of 'Succession'
From: GCIDE
- Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See Succeed.]
- 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. [1913 Webster]
- He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. [1913 Webster]
- You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical.
- Succession duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.]
- Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'succession'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accession,
- affiliation,
- afterlife,
- alternation,
- ancestry,
- anointing,
- anointment,
- apparentation,
- appointment,
- array,
- arrogation,
- articulation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- at intervals,
- attainment,
- authorization,
- bank,
- bequeathal,
- bequest,
- birth,
- birthright,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- borough-English,
- branch,
- breed,
- brood,
- buzz,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- children,
- coheirship,
- coming after,
- common ancestry,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consanguinity,
- consecration,
- consecution,
- consecutively,
- consecutiveness,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- continuum,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- coparcenary,
- coronation,
- course,
- cycle,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- derivation,
- descendants,
- descent,
- devolution,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- drone,
- dynasty,
- election,
- elevation,
- empowerment,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- entail,
- extension,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- file,
- filiation,
- flow,
- following,
- fruit,
- future time,
- gamut,
- gavelkind,
- gradation,
- grandchildren,
- great-grandchildren,
- hangover,
- heirloom,
- heirs,
- heirship,
- hereditament,
- heritable,
- heritage,
- heritance,
- hostages to fortune,
- house,
- hum,
- in a row,
- in line,
- in order,
- in succession,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- Indian file,
- inheritance,
- inheritors,
- issue,
- kids,
- lateness,
- law of succession,
- legacy,
- legitimate succession,
- line,
- line of descent,
- line of succession,
- lineage,
- little ones,
- logical sequence,
- male line,
- mode of succession,
- monotone,
- new generation,
- next life,
- nexus,
- offspring,
- order,
- order of succession,
- patrimony,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- phylum,
- plenum,
- postdate,
- postdating,
- posteriority,
- posterity,
- postposition,
- postremogeniture,
- powder train,
- primogeniture,
- procession,
- progeny,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- promotion,
- provenience,
- queue,
- race,
- range,
- rank,
- recurrence,
- remainder,
- reticulation,
- reversion,
- rising generation,
- rotation,
- round,
- round robin,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- running,
- scale,
- seed,
- seizure,
- sept,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- shift,
- shifting trust,
- shifting use,
- side,
- single file,
- sons,
- spear side,
- spectrum,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- string,
- subjunction,
- subsequence,
- successively,
- successiveness,
- suffixation,
- suite,
- supervenience,
- supervention,
- swath,
- sword side,
- taking over,
- thread,
- tier,
- train,
- transfer,
- transferral,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- treasures,
- turn,
- ultimogeniture,
- uninterruptedly,
- usurpation,
- windrow,
- younglings,
- youngsters
Words containing 'Succession'
- Success,
- Successful,
- Successfully,
- Successfulness,
- Successive,
- Successively,
- Successiveness,
- in succession,
- Apostolical succession,
- Lake Success,
- Singular succession,
- Success, AR,
- Succession duty,
- Succession of crops,
- Successive induction,
- Vacant succession,
- chronological succession,
- ecological succession,
- line of succession,
- Lake Success, NY,
- war of the austrian succession,
- war of the spanish succession