• (British) IPA: /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/

succession

1. An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
   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.
   5. A race or series of descendants.
   6. (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
   7. A right to take possession.
   8. (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
   9. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
      • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call'd England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC ↗:

        long descent of Kings , whose names only for many successions without other memory stand thus register'd

• (an act of following in sequence) See Thesaurus:posteriority
• (a sequence of things in order) See Thesaurus:sequence

• successive

• French: succession
• Italian: successione
• Portuguese: sucessão
• Russian: следование
• Spanish: sucesión

• German: Abfolge
• Russian: последовательность

• French: succession
• German: Thronfolge
• Italian: successione
• Portuguese: sucessão
• Russian: престолонаследие
• Spanish: sucesión