Definitions for succession

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succession suc·ces·sion

Spelling: [suh k-sesh-uh n]

IPA: /səkˈsɛʃ ən/

Succession is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in succession (cceinosssu).

Definitions for succession

noun

1. the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events:
2. a number of persons or things following one another in order or sequence.
3. the right, act, or process, by which one person succeeds to the office, rank, estate, or the like, of another.
4. the order or line of those entitled to succeed one another.
5. the descent or transmission of a throne, dignity, estate, or the like.
6. Also called ecological succession. Ecology. the progressive replacement of one community by another until a climax community is established.

Origin of succession

1275-1325; Middle English Latin successiōn- (stem of successiō) a following (someone) in office, equivalent to success(us), past participle of succēdere to succeed

Examples for succession

When, in succession, he made Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).

TR reinvigorated the office after a succession of grey presidents with his unself-conscious energy, idealism and determination.

All that we can know about that is that in us there is a succession of ideas, of representations; but we, but I, what is that?

Several doors were opened in succession, and finally his own.

He came ten days in succession, and gave me three hours each day.

So for two mornings in succession he was sent away from the office.

“I was at first on a cot, and then in a succession of accommodations,” he says.

Long before his immigration comments, the Governor punched through a succession of liberal hot-buttons:  Marriage equality?

Rank after rank in succession appeared: literally thousands.

At one point in this show, a variation of this happened, in succession.