Associations to the word «Predecessor»

Wiktionary

PREDECESSOR, noun. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
PREDECESSOR, noun. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
PREDECESSOR, noun. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

Dictionary definition

PREDECESSOR, noun. One who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office).
PREDECESSOR, noun. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne