Thesaurus:predecessor

Thesaurus

predecessor

English

Noun

Sense: any person or thing that immediately precedes another

Synonyms

• ancient (obsolete)
• antecessor (obsolete)
• elder
• foreganger (archaic, rare)
• forerunner
• precessor (obsolete)
• predecessor

Antonyms

• successor    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• ancestor    [⇒ thesaurus]
• predecessoress (rare)
•   —
• foreking
• preregnant

Hypernyms

• precursor    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “64. precursor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “predecessor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.