succession

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A number of people or things that follow one after another.

   A succession of visitors arrived throughout the afternoon.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of following one after another in time or order.

   The team won the title for the fourth year in succession.

3. 3
   noun

   The process by which one person takes over an official position or title from another.

   The question of succession to the throne divided the country.

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (noun).

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