noun an order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
2. succession ·noun the person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
3. succession ·noun 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.
4. succession ·noun 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.
5. succession ·noun 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.
6. succession ·noun 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.