succession
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4.1
- noun
- /səkˈsɛʃən/
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sucesión
- Three cups of coffee, downed in quick succession, had restored his good humor remarkably.
- rapid succession
- quick succession
- a succession of events
And then I had a succession of jobs in lobbying.
- And then I had a succession of jobs in lobbying.
- And so there was a succession of events all violent that followed that.
- And it's the beginning of a succession of waves of of network revolution.
- And I may have ended my night by taking three shots in rapid succession like a real man.
- So my business is a succession of sporting events and I want to win all of them.
- They're being written in quick succession.
- We can talk about, you know, philosophical schools having had successions.
- And after that there were a succession of cases, some brought by women, some by men.
- Well, that's what was been going on throughout each of these successions, hasn't it?
- Humans made like that, and that's a succession of these.
- So we have to define success as as involving succession, right.
- And you see it now in succession.
- And I know you, you and Stevie worked with Casey on on that thinking in succession.
- If I were to play over this, let's say I'm playing over a succession of cycling through the circle of fists.
Examples
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So it seems like this quick succession of Pharaohs has led to some externally visible weaknesses.
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You know, the history is a succession of mainly men.
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And after that there were a succession of cases, some brought by women, some by men.
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And it's possible for us to go through an entire succession of, of beautiful bodies in this way.
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The third time in quick succession.
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So my business is a succession of sporting events and I want to win all of them.
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We have a succession of crops that are coming in.
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At the side door, we knocked three times in succession and then waited.
Fiction book (1995) -
She moves through a succession of other people's houses, flats and furnished rooms.
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The museum displayed a succession of paintings from different art movements.
Synonyms
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3.2
A set of things or events that come one after another in a specific order
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2.0
A series of connected events where each follows the next
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3.2
A series of connected events where each one causes the next
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3.8
A list of events in the order they happened
A list of events in the order they happened
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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5.5
The order of people who have the right to become the next ruler, for example a king or queen
- Specialized
A gradual change in an ecosystem where one group of plants and animals replaces another until a stable community forms
A major European war from 1701 to 1714 fought over who should become king of Spain, involving many European countries
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Succession comes from the Latin succedere, meaning 'to follow', and is the same root as succeed and successor. So a succession of things is a series where each item 'follows' the one before it.