English-Thai Dictionary

succession

N การต่อเนื่อง กัน  การตาม กัน มา ติดๆ  ลักษณะ ที่ ต่อเนื่อง กัน  chain sequence series kan-tor-nung-kan

 

succession

N การ รับช่วง ต่อ  การ สืบทอด ต่อ  accession inheritance kan-rab-chung-tor

 

succession

N การ สืบ สันตติวงศ์  การ สืบสกุล  heirship heredity kan-sub-san-ta-ti-wong

 

successional

ADJ เป็น การต่อเนื่อง  following sequential pan-kan-tor-nung

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUCCESSION

n.[L. successio.] 1. A following of things in order; consecution; series of things following one another, either in time or place. Thus we speak of a succession of events in chronology, a succession of kings or bishops, and a succession of words or sentences.
2. The act of succeeding or coming in the place of another; as, this happened after the succession of that prince to the throne. So we speak of the succession of heirs to the estates of their ancestors, or collateral succession.
3. Lineage; an order or series of descendants.
A long succession must ensue.
4. The power or right of coming to the inheritance of ancestors. He holds the property by the title of succession.
What people is so void of common sense,
To vote succession from a native prince?
Succession of crops, in agriculture, is more generally called rotation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUCCESSION

Suc *ces "sion, n. Etym: [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See Succeed. ]

 

1. 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.

 

2. 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. He was in the succession to an earldom. Macaulay.

 

3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue. " Milton.

 

4. 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. You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. Shak. The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. Macaulay.

 

5. 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.

 

6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] Milton. Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical. -- Succession duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng. ] -- Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation.

 

SUCCESSIONAL

SUCCESSIONAL Suc *ces "sion *al, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth. " Flower. -- Suc *ces "sion *al *ly, adv.

 

SUCCESSIONIST

SUCCESSIONIST Suc *ces "sion *ist, n.

 

Defn: A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc. ; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

succession

suc ces sion |səkˈseSHən səkˈsɛʃən | ▶noun 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. • Geology a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence. 2 the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.: the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession. • the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc.: the succession to the Crown was disputed. • Ecology the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached. Compare with sere 2. PHRASES in quick (or rapid ) succession following one another at short intervals. in succession following one after the other without interruption: she won the race for the second year in succession. in succession to inheriting or elected to the place of: he is not first in succession to the presidency. settle the succession determine who shall succeed someone. DERIVATIVES suc ces sion al |-SHənl |adjective 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 ). The term in ecology dates from the mid 19th cent.

 

Succession, Act of

Suc ces sion, Act of (in English history ) each of three Acts of Parliament passed during the reign of Henry VIII regarding the succession of his children. The first (1534 ) declared Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be invalid, fixing the succession on any child born to Henry's new wife Anne Boleyn. The second (1536 ) canceled this, asserting the rights of Jane Seymour and her issue, while the third (1544 ) determined the order of succession of Henry's three children, the future Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

 

succession state

suc |ces ¦sion state ▶noun a country resulting from the partition of another one.

 

Oxford Dictionary

succession

suc |ces ¦sion |səkˈsɛʃ (ə )n | ▶noun 1 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. • Geology a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence. 2 [ mass noun ] the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.: the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession. • the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc.: the succession to the Crown was disputed. • Ecology the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached. Compare with sere 2. PHRASES in quick (or rapid ) succession following one another at short intervals. in succession following one after the other without interruption: she won the race for the second year in succession. in succession to inheriting or elected to the place of: he was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father. settle the succession determine who shall succeed someone. DERIVATIVES successional adjective 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 ).

 

Succession, Act of

Succession, Act of (in English history ) each of three Acts of Parliament passed during the reign of Henry VIII regarding the succession of his children. The first (1534 ) declared Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be invalid, fixing the succession on any child born to Henry's new wife Anne Boleyn. The second (1536 ) cancelled this, asserting the rights of Jane Seymour and her issue, while the third (1544 ) determined the order of succession of Henry's three children, the future Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

 

succession state

suc |ces ¦sion state ▶noun a country resulting from the partition of another one.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

succession

succession noun 1 a succession of exciting events: sequence, series, progression, chain, cycle, round, string, train, line, run, flow, stream. 2 his succession to the throne: accession, elevation, assumption. PHRASES in succession they have now had four wins in succession: one after the other, in a row, consecutively, successively, in sequence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

succession

succession noun 1 a succession of exciting events: sequence, series, progression, course, chain, cycle, round, string, train, line, line-up, run, continuation, flow, stream; concatenation. 2 she produced a male heir and thus deprived him of the succession to the throne: accession, elevation; inheritance of, assumption of. 3 he left behind him a disputed succession between his kinsmen: line of descent, line, descent, ancestral line, blood line, ancestry, dynasty, lineage, genealogy, heritage, pedigree, extraction, derivation, stock, strain, background. PHRASES in succession he drank six pints of beer in rapid succession: one after the other, in a row, consecutively, one behind the other, successively, in sequence; running, straight, solid, uninterrupted; informal on the trot.

 

French Dictionary

succession

succession n. f. nom féminin 1 droit Héritage. : La succession de son grand-père. La liquidation d ’une succession. 2 Série. : Une succession d ’évènements. SYNONYME enchaînement ; suite .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

succession

suc ces sion /səkséʃ (ə )n /→succeed 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 U C 〖通例単数形で 〗(次々と )続くこと , 続けて起こる人 [物, 事 ], «…の » 連続 (series ) «of » (!ofの後は複数名詞 ) ▸ a succession of errors 失策続き .2 U 【重要な役職 位などの 】継承 [相続 ](権 [順位 ]) «to » ; C 継承 [相続 ]者 ▸ the succession to the throne 王位継承 3 U C 〘生態 〙自然更新 , 遷移 .in succ é ssion 連続して ▸ in quick [rapid, close ] succession 矢継ぎ早に .～́ d ù ty 相続税 .～̀ st á te 後継 [継承 ]国家 〘以前に存在していた国家の分割によってできた国家 〙.