successions
- 1Plural of succession.
Ecologists studied the plant successions that followed the wildfire.
The kingdom endured a series of disputed successions over two centuries.
Note
The plural exists only where succession can be counted. Every sense of the singular also works as a mass noun, meaning succession in general, the principle of following on. The plural appears only when the instances are separate: several disputed passings of a crown, distinct runs of strata in a rock face, different lines of descendants. For the idea itself, keep the singular: the law of succession, not of successions.
successions is a form of succession
succession, noun: A series of things that come one after another in a set order. Full entry
- Forms
- successionsuccessions plural
- Spelling
- succession → successions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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