Thesaurus:predecessor
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: any person or thing that immediately precedes another[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- ancient (obsolete)
- antecessor (obsolete)
- elder
- foreganger (archaic, rare)
- forerunner
- precessor (obsolete)
- predecessor
Antonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- ancestor [⇒ thesaurus]
- predecessoress (rare)
- —
- foreking
- preregnant
Hypernyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “64. precursor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “predecessor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.