Word Meanings - SUCCEEDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUCCEEDING)

• After
• Behind
• following
• succeeding
• Subsequent
• Posterior
• later
• after
• Ulterior
• Further
• remote
• more distant
• remoter
• beyond

Related words: (words related to SUCCEEDING)

• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• EQUIDISTANT
  Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.