Dictionary entry details
• SUCCESSION (noun)
Meaning:
A following of one thing after another in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
chronological sequence; chronological succession; successiveness; succession; sequence
Context example:
the doctor saw a sequence of patients
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
temporal arrangement; temporal order (arrangement of events in time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
pelting; rain (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive)
rotation (a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.))
row (a continuous chronological succession without an interruption)
run (an unbroken chronological sequence)
Meaning:
A group of people or things arranged or following in order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context examples:
a succession of stalls offering soft drinks / a succession of failures
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
cascade (a succession of stages or operations or processes or units)
parade (an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things)
run; streak (an unbroken series of events)
Meaning:
The action of following in order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
succession; sequence
Context example:
he played the trumps in sequence
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
order; ordering (the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
chess opening; opening (a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess)
alternation (successive change from one thing or state to another and back again)
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
ecological succession; succession
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Meaning:
Acquisition of property by descent or by will
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
taking over; succession
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)
