Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
(2) - Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
(3) - Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
(4) - Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
(5) - Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
(6) - Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.

(1) - Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

(1) - Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
(2) - Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.

(1) - Successively (adv.) In a successive manner.