 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Succeeding \Suc*ceed"ing\, noun The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Succeeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Succeeding}.] [L. succedere, successum; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F. succ['e]der. See {Cede}, and cf. {Success}.]
1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
As he saw him nigh succeed. --Spenser.
2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.
3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. --Sir T. Browne.
4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [R.]
Succeed my wish and second my design. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
succeeding
adjective
1: coming after or following [syn: {succeeding(a)}] [ant: {preceding(a)}]
2: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" [syn: {future(a)}, {next}, {succeeding(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "succeeding": after, appendant, assured of success, attendant, cadet, coming, consecutive, consequent, crowned with success, ensuing, following, fortunate, junior, later, lineal, made, next, on the up-and-up, on top, out in front, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, prosperous, proximate, puisne, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, subsequent, successful, successional, successive, suffixed, surefire, trailing, triumphant, younger
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |