Meaning

11 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

    a king's accession to a confederacy

    Beitritt

    вступле́ниеvstuplénije, присоедине́ниеprisojedinénije, акце́ссияakcéssija

    вступvstup, приє́днанняpryjédnannja

  2. (countable, uncountable)Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.

    Zuwachs

  3. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.

    (countable, uncountable)Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).

    Verbindung

    (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement

  5. (countable, uncountable)The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

    accession to the European Union

  6. (countable, uncountable)The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.

    her accession to the throne

    Antritt, Besteigung, Thronbesteigung

    воцарениеvocarenije

    the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

  7. (countable, uncountable)The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

  8. (countable, uncountable)Agreement.

  9. (countable, uncountable)Access; admittance.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.

  11. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. There have been many accessions to the party.

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  2. Once each fossil is stable, it is assigned a unique number and accessioned into the museum collections.

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  3. Most Albanians support the accession of their country to the EU.

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  4. Ukraine is not on a viable path to accession to the European Union.

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  5. Next Sunday, we will vote in a referendum on the accession of our region to Mars.

    ruВ следующее воскресенье мы будем голосовать на референдуме по вопросу о присоединении нашего региона к Марсу.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a coming to:
Русский
By meaning 2
a coming to:
act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
a coming to:
increase by something added:
(legal) mode of acquiring property:
act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity:

Origin

Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accessi

Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

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Forms

plural: accessions
Singularaccession
Pluralaccessions

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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