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Succession

noun

Noun

1
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; An act of following in sequence. countable, uncountable
"In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station."
2
acquisition of property by descent or by will wordnet
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; A sequence of things in order. countable, uncountable
"Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure"
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the action of following in order wordnet
5
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; A passing of royal powers. countable, uncountable

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a following of one thing after another in time wordnet
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order. countable, uncountable
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a group of people or things arranged or following in order wordnet
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; A race or series of descendants. countable, uncountable
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(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 wordnet
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; Rotation, as of crops. countable, uncountable
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; A right to take possession. countable, uncountable
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another. countable, historical, uncountable
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An act, process, or instance of succeeding:; The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir. countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
"long descent of Kings , whose names only for many successions without other memory stand thus register'd"

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

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