in turn

1. 1.

   in proper order or sequence

   “talked to each child in turn”

   “the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater”

   Synonymssuccessively

Questions about in turn

What does in turn mean?

in turn means "in proper order or sequence".

What is another word for in turn?

Close synonyms include successively. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in turn a common word?

in turn is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.