Definitions For Succession

noun

• Acquisition of property by descent or by will
• The action of following in order
• A following of one thing after another in time
• A group of people or things arranged or following in order
• (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
• The act of getting a title or right after the person who had that title or right before you has died or is no longer able or allowed to have it ; also : the process by which this happens
• A series of people or things that come one after the other