succession
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4.1
- noun
- /səkˈsɛʃən/
- Three cups of coffee, downed in quick succession, had restored his good humor remarkably.
- rapid succession
- quick succession
- a succession of events
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Watch on YouTubeAnd 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.
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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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2.0
A series of connected events where each follows the next
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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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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
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6.8
A list of events in the order they happened
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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
A major European war from 1701 to 1714 fought over who should become king of Spain, involving many European countries
- Specialized
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6.8
A gradual change in an ecosystem where one group of plants and animals replaces another until a stable community forms
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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.