Crossword clues for successor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who comes after," late 13c., from Anglo-French successor and Old French successour "successor, heir" (12c., Modern French successeur), from Latin successor "follower, successor," agent noun from past participle stem of succedere "to come after" (see succeed).
Wiktionary
n. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
WordNet
n. a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: replacement]
a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
a person who inherits some title or office [syn: heir]
Wikipedia
A successor may refer to:
- Someone who, or something which succeeds or comes after (see success and succession)
- Successor (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Successor to the UK Trident system, the Successor class is the working name of the British ballistic missile submarines planned to replace the Vanguard class from 2028
In mathematics:
- A successor cardinal
- A successor ordinal
- The successor function, the primitive defined as S(n) = n + 1
- A successor (graph theory), a node following the current one in a path
In music:
- Successor (EP), an EP by Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica
The Successor may refer to:
- The Successor (film), a 1996 film including Laura Girling
- The Successor (show), a 2006 Israeli television program
- The Successor (Kadare), a 2003 novel by Ismail Kadare
The Successors may refer to:
- The Diadochi, or Successors to Alexander the Great
Successor is an EP by Sonata Arctica, released through Spinefarm Records on August 7, 2000.
Successor (March 27, 1964 – August 1, 1971) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Usage examples of "successor".
Malink remained chief for many years, and when he became too old to carry the responsibilitysince he had no sonshe appointed Abo his successor.
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring.
On the notice that Eugenius had fulminated a bull for that purpose, they ventured to summon, to admonish, to threaten, to censure the contumacious successor of St.
As the adulation showered upon Napoleon reaches a fevered pitch and spurs a movement to name him First Consul for Life with the right to name a successor, Josephine has misgivings.
Although a successor Sunni general almost certainly would not be as willing as Saddam to take risks, interpret reality to suit his needs, and pursue an expansive foreign policy based on aggression, it would still be tough to accept what would look like a Saddam clone.
The contraction used by the early amanuenses for Praefecto Praetorio has been misunderstood by their successors, and consequently many MSS.
Aubin, the unworthy successor of the good and virtuous Fenelon in the archbishopric of Cambrai.
When the fyrd deposed him, his successor might decide to tidy up any atheling problems left around.
The apologies which were repeatedly addressed to the successors of Trajan are filled with the most pathetic complaints, that the Christians, who obeyed the dictates, and solicited the liberty, of conscience, were alone, among all the subjects of the Roman empire, excluded from the common benefits of their auspicious government.
When they were in the palace square they saw the emperor up above on the cenotaph, seated in the imperial chair, with the empress to his left, and the princess to the right of the emperor, but a little lower, as a sign that she would be the successor to the empire.
As the successor of the Lombards, the chagan asserted his claim to the important city of Sirmium, the ancient bulwark of the Illyrian provinces.
Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde.
In his voyages and travels, in describing the death of the King of Demaa at the hands of his page, Mendez Pinto says that instead of being reserved for torture, as were his successors Ravaillac, and Gerard, the slayer of William the Silent, the assassin was impaled alive with a long stake which was thrust in at his fundament and came out at the nape of his neck.
Opposition to his tyranny culminated in 1842 by his dismission from the directorship, Meyerbeer being his successor.
Newton and his successors up to our own day, to try to conceive the world dynamically within the limits of their spectator-consciousness and thus to form a dynamic interpretation of the universe based on its heliocentric aspect.