Meaning

9 senses
  1. An act, process, or instance of succeeding:

    (countable, uncountable)An act of following in sequence.

    следованиеsledovanije

    the action of following in order

  2. (countable, uncountable)A sequence of things in order.

    Abfolge

    последовательностьposledovatelʹnostʹ

    a group of people or things arranged or following in order

  3. (countable, uncountable)A passing of royal powers.

    Thronfolge

    престолонаследиеprestolonasledije

  4. (countable, uncountable)A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A race or series of descendants.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Rotation, as of crops.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A right to take possession.

  8. (countable, historical, uncountable)In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.

  9. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. This year typhoons comes in succession.

  2. He came to the throne by succession.

  3. Gunter heard five snaps in rapid succession.

    ruГюнтер услышал пять последовательных щелчков. — xlenchik

  4. At the moment, there is not succession.

  5. The future is a succession of daily moments.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
following in sequence:
sequence arranged in order:
passing of royal power:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
sequence arranged in order:
passing of royal power:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (n

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (noun).

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Forms

plural: successions
Singularsuccession
Pluralsuccessions

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
a sequence of things in order:sequenceB1
an act of following in sequence:posteriority
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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