successor

[ suh k-ses-er ]
/ səkˈsɛs ər /
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noun

a person or thing that succeeds or follows.
a person who succeeds another in an office, position, or the like.

Origin of successor

1250–1300; < Latin, equivalent to succed-, variant stem of succēdere to succeed + -tor -tor, with dt > ss; replacing Middle English successour < Anglo-French < Latin, as above

OTHER WORDS FROM successor

suc·ces·sor·al, adjective

Words nearby successor

successful, succession, succession of crops, succession state, successive, successor, succinate, succinct, succinctorium, succinic, succinic acid

Words related to successor

replacement, scion, beneficiary, follower, descendant, heritor, inheritor

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British Dictionary definitions for successor

successor
/ (səkˈsɛsə) /

noun

a person or thing that follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
logic the element related to a given element by a serial ordering, esp the natural number next larger to a given one. The successor of n is n + 1, usually written Sn or n′

Derived forms of successor

successoral, adjective