Read full poem →A flight of bold eagles from Adria’s strand:
Repeated, successive, for many long years,
They darken’d the air, and they plunder’d the land:
Dictionary Entry
successive
Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/səkˈsɛsɪv/Word FrequencyCommon (4.76)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓Coming one after the other in a series.
In a Sentence
“They had won the title for five successive years.”
Published Usage Examples
“If such families had any real existence they could have been formed only by crossing, by the accumulation of successive variations (_variation successive_), and by degeneration from an original type; but if we once admit that there are families of plants and animals, so that the ass may be of the family of the horse, a”
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Origin
Late Middle English from Latin successive- ‘following’, from succedēre ‘to follow after’.
Common Phrases
generations successivestages successiveyears successivedays successivesteps successivegovernments successivesuccessive twosuccessive three
Related Words
Poetry examples for “successive”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
