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succession
/səkˈsɛʃən/
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What does succession mean?
noun
- An act of following in sequence.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- Rotation, as of crops.
- A right to take possession.
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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IPA pronunciation
/səkˈsɛʃən/
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This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways.
And yet Matthias's intention to bequeath to him the succession, met with little or no opposition in the elective states of Austria.
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At the eastern end is a deep, dark gorge, or ravine, down which tumbles a brook in a succession of small cascades.
If my complexion From red to white should change in quick succession, And then from white to red, oh, take no notice!
So long as the sound was a musical tone it proved efficient, for a musical tone is a regular succession of vibrations.