noun · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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UK:/səkˈsɛʃ.ən/
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CMU ARPABET:S AH0 K S EH1 SH AH0 N
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
An act of following in sequence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 2
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A sequence of things in order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 3
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A passing of royal powers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 4
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 5
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A race or series of descendants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 6
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
Rotation, as of crops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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Meaning 7
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A right to take possession.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning 8
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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Meaning 9
An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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Meaning 10
acquisition of property by descent or by will
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: temporal arrangement, temporal order
Narrower terms: rain, pelting, rotation, row, run
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Meaning 13
a group of people or things arranged or following in order
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a succession of stalls offering soft drinks
a succession of failures
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Broader terms: series
Narrower terms: cascade, parade, streak, run
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Meaning 14
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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