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Definition of Successor
1. Noun. A person who follows next in order. "He was President Lincoln's successor"
2. Noun. A thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone.
3. Noun. A person who inherits some title or office.
Definition of Successor
1. 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.
Definition of Successor
1. Noun. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title. ¹
2. Noun. The next heir in order or succession. ¹
3. Noun. A person who inherits a title or office ¹
4. Noun. (context: arithmetic) The integer immediately following another ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Successor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Successor
Literary usage of Successor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Certainly the idea that the soul of a dying person may be transmitted to his
successor is perfectly familiar to primitive peoples. ..."
2. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851)
"For this purpose he openly named his son Yezid as his successor, and requested
... The nomination of a successor was what the prophet himself had not done, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... a plat and survey ordered by the administrator m 1874 is not rendered inadmissible
by proof that his successor had been appointed by the circuit court ..."
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