succession
noun/səkˈseʃn/
Слово англійською: succession
Переклад succession українською: послідо́вність (ряд), по́спіль
Детальний опис
- [countable, usually singular] a number of people or things that follow each other in time or order synonym series
- a succession of visitors
- He's been hit by a succession of injuries since he joined the team.
- in succession She has won the award for the third year in succession.
- They had three children in quick succession.
- The gunman fired three times in rapid succession.
- [uncountable] the regular pattern of one thing following another thing
- the succession of the seasons
- the succession of images on a screen
- [uncountable] the act of taking over an official position or title; the right to take over an official position or title, especially to become the king or queen of a country
- in succession to somebody/something He became chairman in succession to Bernard Allen.
- She's third in order of succession to the throne.
- a line of succession
see also succeed
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting legal transmission of an estate or the throne to another, also in the sense ‘successors, heirs’): from Old French, or from Latin successio(n-), from the verb succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’.