Successor
[sək'sesə] or [sək'sɛsɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone.
(noun.) a person who inherits some title or office.
(noun.) a person who follows next in order; 'he was President Lincoln's successor'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Follower.
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Examples
- Can I separate my father's twin-brother, joint inheritor, and next successor, from himself? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The guide showed us the veritable armor worn by the great son-in-law and successor of Mahomet, and also the buckler of Mahomet's uncle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Innocent III died baffled in 1216, and his successor, Honorius III, effected nothing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- His successor is in my house now--in possession, I think he calls it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is one of the few monarchs in history who cared for his successor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But he wore out, poor man, so I have appointed his successor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Of these I was the eldest, and the destined successor to all his labours and utility. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- This new Sassanid Empire immediately became aggressive, and under Sapor I, the son and successor of Ardashir, took Antioch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, remember my desire about you being my successor, Maurice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the Preface to its next successor, Little Dorrit, I have still to repeat the same words. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His son and successor, Xerxes, turned first to Egypt and set up a Persian satrap there; then for four years he prepared a second attack upon Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His pupil and lifelong friend, and successor as leader o f the Peripatetic school of philosophy, Theophrastus, combined a knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, botany, and mineralogy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- After Mr. Tucker had been provided for, I never heard my husband say that he had any clergyman in his mind as a successor to himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Under Bayezid II (1481-1512), his successor, war was carried into Poland, and most of Greece was conquered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Chief among their critics and successors were Duns Scotus (? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In many respects they differed entirely from their successors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This vessel and its successors have bottom doors for the use of divers, as previously stated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But intellectually and morally their successors at the Lateran and the Vatican[354] were not equal to their opportunities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But these successors had not the artistic instinct or touch of the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Their successors have spread throughout the whole world, and number to-day some thirty or forty million of adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by considering the formidable letters which were received by himself and his successors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was taken over and continued by the British when they became the successors of the Mogul emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drew better than any of their successors down to the beginnings of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Becquerel and Poitevin, in Paris, in 1855, were the first to experiment in this direction, and Fargier, Swan, and Johnson were successors who made valuable contributions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The successors of Constantine no longer reigned in Constantinople, and Ivan took possession of the Byzantine double-headed eagle for his arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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