SUCCEEDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does succeeding mean? 

• SUCCEEDING (adjective)
  The adjective SUCCEEDING has 2 senses:

1. coming after or following

2. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

  Familiarity information: SUCCEEDING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCCEEDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming after or following

Similar:

back-to-back; consecutive (one after the other)

ensuing (following immediately and as a result of what went before)

following; undermentioned (about to be mentioned or specified)

following; next (immediately following in time or order)

next ((of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment)

in line (being next in a line of succession)

postmortem (after death or after an event)

Also:

subsequent (following in time or order)

Attribute:

timing (the time when something happens)

temporal relation (a relation involving time)

Antonym:

preceding (existing or coming before)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

Synonyms:

future; next; succeeding

Context example:

our next president

Similar:

incoming (arriving at a place or position)

 Context examples 

And I begged Mrs. Weston to come with me, that I might be sure of succeeding.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was almost a temptation one moment, and the succeeding moment it became a terror.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Towards the close of it, in the interval succeeding an Italian song, she explained the words of the song to Mr Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"She's not a stricken deer anyway," said Ned, trying to be witty, and succeeding as well as very young gentlemen usually do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The third day succeeding their knowledge of the particulars, was so fine, so beautiful a Sunday as to draw many to Kensington Gardens, though it was only the second week in March.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“His being so sure of succeeding was wrong,” said she, “and certainly ought not to have appeared; but consider how much it must increase his disappointment!”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A silence succeeding, I was undecided whether to go or stay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Possibly Beauty Smith, arch-fiend and tormentor, was capable of breaking White Fang's spirit, but as yet there were no signs of his succeeding.

(White Fang, by Jack London)