succession
noun
[ səkˈsɛʃ(ə)n ]
• a number of people or things of a similar kind following one after the other.
• "she had been secretary to a succession of board directors"
Similar:
sequence,
series,
progression,
course,
chain,
cycle,
round,
string,
train,
line,
line-up,
run,
continuation,
flow,
stream,
concatenation,
• the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.
• "the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession"
Origin:
Middle 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 (see succeed).
in succession
• following one after the other without interruption.
• "she won the race for the second year in succession"
Similar:
one after the other,
in a row,
consecutively,
one behind the other,
successively,
in sequence,
running,
straight,
solid,
uninterrupted,
on the trot,
