Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/
- (Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsɚ/
- (America) IPA: /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, /ˈpɹi.də.sɛs.ɚ/
Noun
predecessor (plural predecessors)
- 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.
- A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
- (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
- forerunner
- foreganger (archaic)
- French: prédécesseur, prédécesseuse, prédécessrice
- German: Vorgänger, Vorgängerin
- Italian: predecessore, antecessore
- Portuguese: predecessor, antecessor
- Russian: предше́ственник
- Spanish: predecesor, antecesor
- French: précédent
- German: Vorläufer
- Italian: precedente
- Portuguese: predecessor
- Russian: предше́ственник
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