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succession
noun
1 succession
A following of one thing after another in time.
synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness.
Roget 783:
transfer,
conveyance,
assignment,
alienation,
abalienation†;
demise,
limitation;
conveyancing†;
transmission
etc.
(transference)
270;
enfeoffment†,
bargain and sale,
lease and release;
exchange
etc.
(interchange)
148;
barter
etc.
794;
substitution
etc.
147.
succession,
reversion;
shifting use,
shifting trust;
devolution.
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Roget 117:
posteriority;
succession,
sequence;
following
etc.
281;
subsequence,
supervention;
futurity
etc.
121;
successor;
sequel
etc.
65;
remainder,
reversion.
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Roget 104:
repetition,
iteration,
reiteration,
harping,
recurrence,
succession,
run;
battology,
tautology;
monotony,
tautophony;
rhythm
etc.
138;
diffuseness,
pleonasm,
redundancy.
chimes,
repetend,
echo,
ritornello†,
burden of a song,
refrain;
rehearsal;
rechauffe [Fr.],
rifacimento [It],
recapitulation.
cuckoo
etc.
(imitation)
19;
reverberation
etc.
408;
drumming
etc.
(roll)
407;
renewal
etc.
(restoration)
660.
twice-told tale;
old story,
old song;
second edition,
new edition;
reappearance,
reproduction,
recursion [Comp.];
periodicity
etc.
138.
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Roget 63:
sequence,
coming after;
going after
etc.
(following)
281;
consecution,
succession;
posteriority
etc.
117.
continuation;
order of succession;
successiveness;
paracme†.
secondariness†;
subordinancy
etc.
(inferiority)
34.
afterbirth,
afterburden†;
placenta,
secundines [Med.].
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Roget 69:
continuity;
consecution,
consecutiveness
etc.
adj.;
succession,
round,
suite,
progression,
series,
train chain;
catenation,
concatenation;
scale;
gradation,
course;
ceaselessness,
constant flow,
unbroken extent.
procession,
column;
retinue,
cortege,
cavalcade,
rank and file,
line of battle,
array.
pedigree,
genealogy,
lineage,
race;
ancestry,
descent,
family,
house;
line,
line of ancestors;
strain.
rank,
file,
line,
row,
range,
tier,
string,
thread,
team;
suit;
colonnade.
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Dutch: aaneenschakeling, aaneensluiting, opeenvolging
Polish: pasmo, ciąg
2 succession
A group of people or things arranged or following in order.
Dutch: troonswisseling, opeenvolging
3 succession
The action of following in order.
synonym: sequence.
4 succession
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.
synonym: ecological succession.
Polish: sukcesja
5 succession
Acquisition of property by descent or by will.
synonym: taking over.
Polish: sukcesja
Moby thesaurus: Indian file, accession, affiliation, afterlife, alternation, ancestry, anointing, anointment, apparentation, appointment, array, arrogation, articulation, assignment, assumption, at intervals, attainment, authorization, bank, bequeathal, bequest, birth, birthright, blood, bloodline, borough-English, branch, breed, brood, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, children, coheirship, coming after, common ancestry, concatenation, connection, consanguinity, consecration, consecution, consecutively, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, continuum, conveyance, conveyancing, coparcenary, coronation, course, cycle, delegation, deputation, derivation, descendants, descent, devolution, direct line, distaff side, drone, dynasty, election, elevation, empowerment, endless belt, endless round, entail, extension, extraction, family, female line, file, filiation, flow, following, fruit, future time, gamut, gavelkind, gradation, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hangover, heirloom, heirs, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, hostages to fortune, house, hum, in a row, in line, in order, in succession, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, inheritors, issue, kids, lateness, law of succession, legacy, legitimate succession, line, line of descent, line of succession, lineage, little ones, logical sequence, male line, mode of succession, monotone, new generation, next life, nexus, offspring, order, order of succession, patrimony, pendulum, periodicity, phylum, plenum, postdate, postdating, posteriority, posterity, postposition, postremogeniture, powder train, primogeniture, procession, progeny, progression, prolongation, promotion, provenience, queue, race, range, rank, recurrence, remainder, reticulation, reversion, rising generation, rotation, round, round robin, routine, row, run, running, scale, seed, seizure, sept, sequel, sequence, series, shift, shifting trust, shifting use, side, single file, sons, spear side, spectrum, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, string, subjunction, subsequence, successively, successiveness, suffixation, suite, supervenience, supervention, swath, sword side, taking over, thread, tier, train, transfer, transferral, transmission, transmittal, treasures, turn, ultimogeniture, uninterruptedly, usurpation, windrow, younglings, youngsters ... show more.
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