successor
A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
Noun 4 meanings
A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
“George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.”
The next heir in order or succession.
A person who inherits a title or office.
The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
“A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.”
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.
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SUCCESSOR at a glance
SUCCESSOR has 9 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (S 1 + U 1 + C 3 + C 3 + E 1 + S 1 + S 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,181 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with successor
All rhymes- PROFESSOR14
- SPONSOR9
- ADVISOR11
- SUPERVISOR15
- SENSOR6
- PROCESSOR13
- PREDECESSOR16
- PRECURSOR13
- COMPRESSOR16
- CENSOR8
- CURSOR8
- TENSOR6
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