successor
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
successor
n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
Lincoln's successor" [syn: {successor}, {replacement}]
2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
someone
3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: {successor},
{heir}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SUCCESSOR. One who follows or comes into the place of another.
2. This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to
any corporation. The word heir is more correctly applicable to a common
person who takes an estate by descent. 12 Pick. R. 322; Co. Litt. 8 b.
3. It is also used to designate a person who has been appointed or
elected to some office, after another person.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "successor":
adherent, aftermath, apparent heir, appendage, attendant,
backup man, beneficiary heir, buff, cavaliere servente, conclusion,
consequence, coparcener, courtier, dangler, dependent, descendant,
disciple, dynasty, effect, fan, fideicommissary heir,
fiduciary heir, flunky, follower, following, hanger-on, heir,
heir apparent, heir expectant, heir general, heir in tail,
heir of entail, heir of inventory, heir of line, heir portioner,
heir presumptive, heir whatsoever, heiress, henchman, heritor,
homme de cour, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, joint heir,
line, lineage, next in line, offspring, orphan, parasite, partisan,
posterity, presumptive heir, public, pursuer, pursuivant, relict,
remainderman, replacement, reversioner, satellite, sectary, sequel,
shadow, stooge, supporter, survivor, tagtail, tail, trainbearer,
votary, ward heeler, widow, widower
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