predecessor
nounEtymology
From Middle English predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“to retire, to die”) (English decease).
- derived from dēcēdō
- derived from dēcessor
- derived from prae-
- derived from praedēcessor
- derived from predecesseor
- inherited from predecessour
Definitions
One who precedes
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.
- I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
- "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually…
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
- No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
The neighborhood
- synonymforerunner
- synonymforeganger
- synonymancestor
- synonymantecessor
- synonymprecursor
- synonymancient
- synonymelder
- synonymprecessor
- synonympredecessor
- antonymsuccessor
- neighbordecease
- neighbordeceased
- neighborpredecessive
- neighborsuccessive
- neighborsuccessor
- neighborprecursor
- neighborancestor
- neighborpredecessoress
- neighborforeking
- neighborpreregnant
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at predecessor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at predecessor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at predecessor
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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