Succession (IPA: /səkˈsɛʃən/)
| Succession (n.) |
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. |
| Succession (n.) |
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. |
| Succession (n.) |
An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. |
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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. |
| Succession (n.) |
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. |
| Succession (n.) |
The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. |
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Geology |
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Episode of 30 Rock (S2 E13) |
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Painting by Wassily Kandinsky |
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American comedy-drama television series |
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Episode of Xena: Warrior Princess (S5 E3) |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " All fiefs were originally masculine, and women were excluded from the succession of them because they cannot keep secrets." - Women |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Music includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats." - Music |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all." - Dreams |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?" - Alphonse de Lamartine |
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