Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

(1) - Succedaneous (a.) Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

(1) - Succedaneum (n.) a remedy used as a substitute for another.
(2) - Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute

(1) - Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover.
(2) - Succeed (v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
(3) - Succeed (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
(4) - Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
(5) - Succeed (v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
(6) - Succeed (v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
(7) - Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
(8) - Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
(9) - Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.