Success(n.) Act of succeeding; succession.
Success(n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Success(n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Success(n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
Successful(a.) Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
Succession(n.) 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.
Succession(n.) 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.
Succession(n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Succession(n.) 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.
Succession(n.) 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.
Succession(n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Successive(a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Successive(a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Successively(adv.) In a successive manner.
Successiveness(n.) The quality or state of being successive.
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