successor

• successour (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsɚ/, IPA^(key): /səˈsɛsɚ/

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successor (plural successors)

1. 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.

   • 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century‎, →OCLC, →OL, page 27:

     After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.

2. The next heir in order or succession.
3. A person who inherits a title or office.
4. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.

   A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.

• (person or thing that immediately follows another): aftercomer (uncommon); see also Thesaurus:successor

• (antonym(s) of “person or thing that immediately follows another”): predecessor; see also Thesaurus:predecessor

• successor ideology

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Borrowed from Latin successōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suk.səˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [suk.seˈsoɾ]

successor (feminine successora, masculine plural successors, feminine plural successores)

1. (law) succeeding, following

successor m (plural successors, feminine successora)

1. successor

• succeir

• “successor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “successor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “successor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “successor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From succēdō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sukˈkes.sor/, [s̠ʊkˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sutˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [sutˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

successor m (genitive successōris, feminine succestrīx); third declension

1. follower, successor

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: successor
• → English: successor
• → French: successeur
• → Galician: sucesor
• → Italian: successore
• → Occitan: successor
• → Portuguese: sucessor
• → Spanish: sucesor

• “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• successor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin successor.

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successor m (plural successors)

1. successor

• succedir
• successiu