successor
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 8.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
- noun The next heir in order or succession.
- noun A person who inherits a title or office.
- noun The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.
Similar words
replacement heir predecessor succession succeed following follow-on follow-up substitute inherit
Often followed by
to of in was as states and is at
Word family
succession successions successive successively successors
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