successor
successor is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. Chaucer. A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. Blackstone.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- after
- aftergame
- aftergrowth
- afterpiece
- afterthought
- afterwards
- appendage
- appendix
- arriere
- close
- codicil
- colophon
- come
- continuation
- date
- eftsoons
- ensue
- epilogue
- follow
- following
- from
- future
- futurity
- heelpiece
- into
- last
- later
- moment
- more
- next
- occur
- outgrowth
- period
- peroration
- piece
- postdiluvial
- postdiluvian
- posterior
- posteriority
- posthumous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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