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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, noun [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See {Succeed}.]
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay.
3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. ''A long succession must ensue.'' --Milton.
4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. --Shak.
The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay.
5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] --Milton.
{Apostolical succession}. (Theol.) See under {Apostolical}.
{Succession duty}, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.]
{Succession of crops}. (Agric.) See {Rotation of crops}, under {Rotation}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
succession
noun
1: a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: {sequence}, {chronological sequence}, {successiveness}, {chronological succession}]
2: a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"
3: the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: {sequence}]
4: (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 [syn: {ecological succession}]
5: acquisition of property by descent or by will [syn: {taking over}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
207 Moby Thesaurus words for "succession": 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
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