succession

noun successions

1. countable, uncountable An act of following in sequence. 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 aroun

   Similar: posteriority

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

   Similar: sequence

3. countable, uncountable A passing of royal powers.
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. long descent of Kings , whose names only for many successions without other memory stand thus register'd