predecessor
English
Alternative forms
- prædecessor (archaic)
- prædecessour (obsolete, rare)
- predecessour (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prae (“before”) + decedo (“go away”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
predecessor (plural predecessors)
- One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
- A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
- (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
Synonyms
- forerunner
- foreganger (archaic, rare)
Antonyms
Translations
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “predecessor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
- ^ Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
predecessor m (plural predecessors, feminine predecessora)
Further reading
- “predecessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “predecessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “predecessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “predecessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Noun
predecessor m (plural predecessores, feminine predecessora, feminine plural predecessoras)
- predecessor (something or someone who precedes)
Synonyms
- (one who precedes): antecessor
Adjective
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- preceding (occurring before or in front of something else)
Synonyms
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