SUCCESSIONS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Succession

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

Middle English (denoting legal transmission of an estate or the throne to another, also in the sense ‘successors, heirs’): from Old French, or from Latin successio(n-), from the verb succedere (see succeed)

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: səkˈsɛʃn
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a number of people or things of a similar kind following one after the other

Short Definition:

several people or things of similar kind following one after other

Examples:
  • she had been secretary to a succession of board directors
Definition:

the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.

Short Definition:

action or process of inheriting title, office, property

Examples:
  • the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession

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