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Definition of Predecessor

1. Noun. One who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office).

2. Noun. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.

Definition of Predecessor

1. n. 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.

Definition of Predecessor

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. ¹

3. Noun. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predecessor

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predecessor

predatory pricing predawn predawns predeal predeath predeaths predebate predecay predecease predeceased

predeceaser predeceasers predeceases predeceasing predecessive predecessor (current term) predecessoress predecessoresses predecessors predecessour

predecided predecimal predecimalisation predecimalization predeclare predeclared predeclares predeclaring prededication prededications

Literary usage of Predecessor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"But, although Pirce may not have been so elected, it does not follow that he was not the predecessor of Page within the meaning of section 51, ..."

2. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1884)
"liament, which reversed the acts of its predecessor. ... To his predecessor, Bradwardine, whose work as a scholastic teacher he carried on in the ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The Liberian catalogues gives us a certain " Cletus," as the immediate predecessor of Anacletus ; scholars like Mommsen and 1 For this date see article ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Caspar von Logau (1562-74) showed at first greater energy than nis predecessor in endeavouring to compose the troubles of his distracted diocese, ..."

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