英语词汇“successor”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

successor

释义

succeed /sək-sēdˈ/

transitive verb

To come after, follow
To follow up or in order
To take the place of (esp in office, title, or possession)
To inherit (Shakespeare)
To cause to succeed (obsolete)

intransitive verb

To follow in order
To take the place of another (often with to)
To devolve, pass in succession (Shakespeare)
To turn out (archaic)
To turn out well
To prosper
To obtain one's wish or accomplish what is attempted
To avail, be successful (with in)
To approach (obsolete)

ORIGIN: OFr succeder, from L succēdere, -cēssum, from sub- in sense of near, next after, and cēdere to go

succeedˈer noun

Someone who is successful
A successor

succeedˈing adjective

success /sək-sesˈ/ noun

An act of succeeding
The state of having succeeded
Upshot (obsolete)
Prosperous progress, achievement, or termination
Prosperity
Attainment of wealth, influence or acclaim
A successful person, book, affair, etc
Sequence (obsolete)
Succession (obsolete)

successˈantly adverb (Shakespeare)

In succession

successˈful adjective

Resulting in success
Achieving, having achieved, or having, the desired effect or outcome
Prosperous, flourishing

successˈfully adverb

With success
With promise of success (Shakespeare)

successˈfulness noun

succession /-seshˈən/ noun

A coming after or following
A coming into another's place
A sequence in time or place
Law, recognized mode, right, order or turn, of succeeding one to another
(in Roman and Scots law) the taking of property by one person in place of another
Rotation of crops
Heirs collectively
Posterity
A set of strata which represents an unbroken chronological sequence (geology)
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

Coming in succession or in order
Hereditary (obsolete)

successˈively adverb

successˈiveness noun

successˈless adjective

successˈlessly adverb

successˈlessness noun

successˈor noun

A person who, or thing which, succeeds or comes after
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

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