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Synonyms for successor
səkˈsɛs ərsuc·ces·sor

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Wiktionary2.4 / 5 votes

  1. successornoun

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

  2. successornoun

    George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

  3. successornoun

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

  4. successornoun

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

  5. successornoun

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. successor, replacementnoun

    a person who follows next in order

    "he was President Lincoln's successor"

    Synonyms:
    switch, alternate, substitute, renewal, replacement, transposition, surrogate, refilling, replenishment, substitution, replacing, permutation, heir

  2. successornoun

    a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone

    Synonyms:
    heir, replacement

  3. successor, heirnoun

    a person who inherits some title or office

    Synonyms:
    heir, heritor, inheritor, replacement

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. successornoun

    Synonyms:
    follower

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. successornoun

    Antonyms:
    predecessor

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How to use successor in a sentence?

  1. Jeff Shesol:

    I think there is tension inherently because you have a president who is still president who has certain points that he wants to press and certain directions he wants to lead and he wants his successor to go, he probably has a good deal of confidence in his political judgment and thinks he knows best.

  2. David Makovsky:

    2016 is part of the calculus here, the closer we get to the election, the more this President is going to put a premium on maximizing the chances for his successor.

  3. Cheong Seong-chang:

    Throughout their seven-decade history, their successors have always been a mystery to us. Why would they change their mode of operation now? So if I were to bet $5, I would say she is not the successor.

  4. Nicholas Dungan:

    This time it was France that was attacked, there is no war-weariness in France like there is in the U.K. or the U.S. There is no sense that Chirac, (successor Nicolas) Sarkozy or Hollande has lied to the French people.

  5. Eldred Masunungure:

    A successor will create another centre of power, which is what Mugabe has been fighting by dismantling Mujuru's pillars of support, mugabe may give an impression that those appointed stand a good chance of succeeding him, but he is consolidating and will remain the centre of gravity in the party and state.


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