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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   succession

   • IPA[səkˈseSH(ə)n]

   美式

   • n.
     a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other；a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence

   • noun: succession, plural noun: successions

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other she had been secretary to a succession of board directors 同義詞 sequence, series, progression, course, chain, ... 更多cycle, round, string, train, line, lineup, run, continuation, flow, stream, concatenation
   • ▪ a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence the Cretaceous succession
   • 2. the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc. the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession 同義詞 accession, elevation, inheritance of, assumption of
   • ▪ the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc. the succession to the Crown was disputed 同義詞 line of descent, line, descent, ancestral line, blood line, ... 更多ancestry, dynasty, lineage, genealogy, heritage, pedigree, extraction, derivation, stock, strain, background
   • ▪ the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached.

   片語

   • in quick succession
   • in succession
   • in succession to
   • settle the succession