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SUCCESSOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("successor" is a kind of...):
replacement; substitute (a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another)
Derivation:
succeed (be the successor (of))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who inherits some title or office
Synonyms:
heir; successor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("successor" is a kind of...):
issue; offspring; progeny (the immediate descendants of a person)
Derivation:
succeed (be the successor (of))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who follows next in order
Example:
he was President Lincoln's successor
Synonyms:
replacement; successor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("successor" is a kind of...):
compeer; equal; match; peer (a person who is of equal standing with another in a group)
Derivation:
succeed (be the successor (of))
Context examples:
In the coming years, there will be a launch of new telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and it will be able to detect atmospheric components of the exoplanets and show what's happening on the surface.
(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In obedience, therefore, to his honour’s commands, I related to him the Revolution under the Prince of Orange; the long war with France, entered into by the said prince, and renewed by his successor, the present queen, wherein the greatest powers of Christendom were engaged, and which still continued: I computed, at his request, that about a million of Yahoos might have been killed in the whole progress of it; and perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and five times as many ships burnt or sunk.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Peggotty had now removed here for good; and had let her own house to the successor of Mr. Barkis in the carrying business, who had paid her very well for the good-will, cart, and horse.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Each time a moon broke apart and reformed from the resulting ring, its successor moon would be five times smaller than the last, according to the model, and debris would have rained down on the planet, possibly explaining enigmatic sedimentary deposits found near Mars' equator.
(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)
SARS-CoV-1, like its successor now circulating across the globe, emerged from China and infected more than 8,000 people in 2002 and 2003.
(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)
Only this morning, I received intelligence that the successor, whose arrival I have been so long expecting, cannot be ready to replace me for three months to come yet; and perhaps the three months may extend to six.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Once more he laid his hand upon my shoulder; and then taking his flute and a few books from his desk, and leaving the key in it for his successor, he went out of the school, with his property under his arm.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
My father, indeed, imposed the determination, but since his death, I have not a legitimate obstacle to contend with; some affairs settled, a successor for Morton provided, an entanglement or two of the feelings broken through or cut asunder—a last conflict with human weakness, in which I know I shall overcome, because I have vowed that I will overcome—and I leave Europe for the East.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Any one of these scouts used to think nothing of politely assisting an old lady in black out of a vehicle, killing any proctor whom she inquired for, representing his employer as the lawful successor and representative of that proctor, and bearing the old lady off (sometimes greatly affected) to his employer's office.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
