succeedˈer noun

1. Someone who is successful
2. A successor

succeedˈing adjective

success /sək-sesˈ/ noun

1. An act of succeeding
2. The state of having succeeded
3. Upshot (obsolete)
4. Prosperous progress, achievement, or termination
5. Prosperity
6. Attainment of wealth, influence or acclaim
7. A successful person, book, affair, etc
8. Sequence (obsolete)
9. Succession (obsolete)

successˈantly adverb (Shakespeare)

In succession

successˈful adjective

1. Resulting in success
2. Achieving, having achieved, or having, the desired effect or outcome
3. Prosperous, flourishing

successˈfully adverb

1. With success
2. With promise of success (Shakespeare)

successˈfulness noun

succession /-seshˈən/ noun

1. A coming after or following
2. A coming into another's place
3. A sequence in time or place
4. Law, recognized mode, right, order or turn, of succeeding one to another
5. (in Roman and Scots law) the taking of property by one person in place of another
6. Rotation of crops
7. Heirs collectively
8. Posterity
9. A set of strata which represents an unbroken chronological sequence (geology)
10. In an ecological community, the sequence of changes as one set of species succeeds another

successˈional adjective

successˈionally adverb

successˈionist noun

A believer in the necessity of Apostolic succession

successˈionless adjective

successive /sək-sesˈiv or (Shakespeare) sukˈ/ adjective

1. Coming in succession or in order
2. Hereditary (obsolete)

successˈively adverb

successˈiveness noun

successˈless adjective

successˈlessly adverb

successˈlessness noun

successˈor noun

1. A person who, or thing which, succeeds or comes after
2. A person appointed to succeed

successˈorship noun

succession duty noun

A tax formerly imposed on succession to property, varying with the degree of relationship

succession house noun

A forcing-house in a graded series, in which plants are moved on from one to the next

succession states plural noun

States resulting from the break-up of previously existing countries, such as those established after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire

success story noun

(the record of) a person's, company's, etc rise to prosperity, fame, etc

in succession

Following one another, one after another

plant succession

A series of vegetation types following one another in the same region