successor
- 01 C1 Advanced
a person who takes a job or position after the previous person leaves.
a person who succeeds another in an office, title, or position of authority.
Simple“The company board is currently looking for a successor to the retiring CEO.”
In context“The prime minister struggled to find a suitable successor who could unite the fractured party before the upcoming general election.”
UsageOften followed by the preposition 'to'.
SynonymsAntonyms - 02 C2 Proficiency
the number that comes immediately after another number.
the integer, ordinal, or cardinal number immediately following a given number in a sequence.
Simple“In the set of whole numbers, the successor of five is six.”
In context“The Peano axioms define natural numbers by starting with zero and applying a successor function to generate the rest of the set.”
UsageUsed as a countable noun in set theory and arithmetic.
Antonyms
“The Scottish Football Association hopes to name the Belgian Sébastien Pocognoli as the successor to Steve Clarke as manager early next week.”
“From the title onwards, this retro shooter is one long homage to GoldenEye, and to its un-Bonded successor, 2000’s Perfect Dark.”
From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.