successive
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin succedere (“to succeed in”)
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
successive (not comparable)
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- Coming one after the other in a series.
- They had won the title for five successive years.
- 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.
- Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
- a successive title; a successive empire
- (grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
Synonyms edit
- (in a series): consecutive
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in a series
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successive
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
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successive
Latin edit
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successīve
References edit
- successive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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Adjective edit
successive