Hypertext Webster Gateway: "successor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Successor \Suc*ces"sor\, n. [OE. successour, OF. successur,
successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See {Succeed}.]
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which
another has left, and sustains the like part or character; --
correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased
king. --Chaucer.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of
chattels, without naming their successors, vests an
absolute property in them so lond as the corporation
subsists. --Blackstone.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
successor
n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
Lincoln's successor" [syn: {replacement}]
2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
someone
3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: {heir}]
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