accession
UK/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/
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Australia/ækˈseʃ.ən/
accession noun: a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
Noun
accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- a king's accession to a confederacy
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]...
- […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli
- Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
- A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- accession to the European Union
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- her accession to the throne
- This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.1943 March and April, “L.N.E.R. New Mixed-Traffic 4-6-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 104
- The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Agreement.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
Verb
accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)
- To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).
- Antonyms:
- deaccession
accession meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
accession in Hindi
- राज्यारोहण, पदग्रहण, उच्चपद प्राप्ति, आगमन, आरोहण, पहुँच
accession in Tamil
- வாரிசாக ஏற்றல், இணக்கம், அரசெய்தல், பதவியேற்றல், கூடுதல், கூட்டு
accession in Marathi
- प्रवेशाशीकरण
accession in Urdu
- تخت نشینی, اضافہ, توفیر, تقرر, فائز ہونا, فائز ہونے کا عمل
More languagesFewer languages
- accession in Telugu
- యాక్సెషనింగ్
- accession in Malayalam
- സ്ഥാനാരോഹണം
- accession in Kannada
- ಸಿಂಹಾಸನಾರೋಹಣ, ಪಟ್ಟಾಭಿಷೇಕ, ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಸ್ವೀಕಾರ
- accession in Punjabi
- ਐਕਸੈਸ਼ਨ
- accession in Indonesian
- akresi
- accession in Thai
- ภาคยานุวัติ pâak-ká-yaa-nú-wát
Examples of accession in a sentence
- An accession of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union seems to have moved off the radar.
- Typically, before a country begins accession negotiations, all 27 member states must unanimously agree to open them.
- At that time, accession to the office of libationer already involved the conferral of sacred texts.
Antonyms of accession
Forms of accession
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | accessions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | accessions |
| present participle | accessioning |
| past participle | accessioned |
| past | accessioned |
Origin of accession
Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Words formed from accession
Phrases with accession
Questions about accession
- What does accession mean?
- Accession means a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- What is accession in Hindi?
- Accession in Hindi is राज्यारोहण, पदग्रहण, उच्चपद प्राप्ति. See Accession meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is accession?
- Accession can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce accession?
- Accession is pronounced /ækˈsɛʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of accession?
- The plural of accession is accessions.
Words near accession in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: accession (page history and authors); accession (Hindi Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accession (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accession (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); accession (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accession (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); accession (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accession (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accession (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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