SUCCESSION Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

succession

noun

Definition of succession

as in series

a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars.

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as in descent

the order of people in a family The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.

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Recent Examples of succession The Kremlin, which surely has succession plans, cannot guarantee that they will be followed in the event of Putin’s death or departure from power. — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026 Staying on top of harvests as fruit ripens, rather than going out into the garden only once or twice a week, can encourage a succession of more harvestable crops. — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026 The actor is known not just for his versatility but for displaying it in rapid succession. — Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Much has been made of the Raiders’ quarterback succession plan. — Sam Warren, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for succession

Recent Examples of Synonyms for succession

Noun

Tessa Coates created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner along with Matt Miller and director Peyton Reed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Then, on the very next series, Philo coolly dropped back on third-and-11 – with the crowd going bonkers – and fired a 20-yard TD strike to Dallas Wilson.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of series

Noun

But the object was at least another seven meters (23 feet) below him, and a deeper descent was too much of a risk for his inexperienced students.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
The variant then spread into other populations, including people of African American, Indigenous American, and Acadian and French Canadian descent, particularly after the Civil War.

— Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of descent

Noun

The mermaid headboard was also created by Friday, who strung the fish-string lights too.

— Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2026
There is no noise of a breaking string echoing in the distance — the stage direction that pushed Chekhov’s final dramatic landscape toward Beckettian absurdism before Beckett was born.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of string

Noun

That means that a transposon is partly responsible for the months-long process of development in utero that’s typical for our lineage, humans included.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Butte Creek holds one of only three fully wild spring-run populations left in the valley, fish with no hatchery in their lineage.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of lineage

Noun

The team measured 13 rare earth elements, including cerium, ytterbium and lanthanum, and examined whether exposure was associated with birth outcomes.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Only the direct children and grandchildren of the current monarch can receive royal titles at birth.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of birth

Noun

Next might follow fears about contagion, vulnerability, age, or heredity and how these may affect body and mind.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
Havighorst, an executive director of institutional advancement at Prairie State College, was diagnosed with a form of CMT 2 1/2 years ago called heredity neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of heredity

Noun

At the core of South Africa’s push to reset its ties with the US while maintaining strong relations with China are mines like the giant Mogalakwena site, 150 miles north of Johannesburg and operated by Valterra Platinum.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Iran’s ambassador to Russia also said in February 2025 that Tehran and Moscow no longer needed SWIFT for bilateral banking relations and were using their own confidential bank-messaging systems.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026