Succession

Noun

 * 1) An act of following in sequence.
 * 2) A sequence of things in order.
 * 3) A passing of royal powers.
 * 4) A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
 * 1) A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

Derived terms

 * successional

Related terms

 * successive

Adjectives for Succession
uninterrupted;  dreary;   perpetual;   observed; lashing; swift; delicious; destined; strange; rapid; continual; sweet tragic;   barbarous;   fierce;   hereditary rigid;  melodious;  medieval; connected fortuitous; constant.

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

Translations

 * Dutch: opeenvolging


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: opeenvolging


 * German:


 * Czech: následnictví
 * Dutch: troonswisseling


 * German: Thronfolge

Noun

 * 1) Series
 * 2) Inheritance, as in the passing of possessions from a deceased person to his or her inheritors
 * 1) Inheritance, as in the passing of possessions from a deceased person to his or her inheritors