Succession ¹

Definition: 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 ²

Definition: 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 ³

Definition: An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

Succession ⁴

Definition: 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 ⁵

Definition: 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 ⁶

Definition: The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.

succession ⁷

Definition: acquisition of property by descent or by will

succession ⁸

Definition: the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence"

succession ⁹

Definition: a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"

succession ¹⁰

Definition: a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"

succession ¹¹

Definition: (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