Definition for Predecessor:

• One who has preceded another.

Synonyms for Predecessor:

• n.

  •
  • associate,
  • co-worker,
  • opposite number,
  • subordinate,
  • workmate,
  • superior,
  • colleague,
  • counterpart,
  • junior,
  • relief.
  •
  • retrospective,
  • early,
  • in retrospect,
  • date back to,
  • historically,
  • historical,
  • rewrite history,
  • the annals of something,
  • those were the days.
  •
  • precede.
  •
  • kin.
  •ascendant (noun)
  • fore mothers,
  • fore-mothers,
  • ascendents,
  • fore mother.
  •father (noun)
  • pa,
  • daddy,
  • Padres,
  • padre,
  • procreators,
  • Padri,
  • begetter,
  • daddies,
  • begetters,
  • Procreator,
  • pas.
  •forefather (noun)
  • fore-father,
  • fore fathers,
  • fore-fathers,
  • fore father.
  •forerunner (noun)
  • fore runners,
  • fore goer,
  • fore shadows,
  • pre monitions,
  • pre-monitions,
  • pre monition,
  • fore runner,
  • fore-runners,
  • fore-runner,
  • fore-shadow,
  • fore tokens,
  • foregoers,
  • fore-goer,
  • fore-goers,
  • pre sage,
  • fore-token,
  • fore goers,
  • fore-warnings,
  • fore shadow,
  • fore-warning,
  • fore token,
  • fore warnings,
  • fore-shadows,
  • fore-tokens,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre sages,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre-sages.
  •person (noun)
  • predecessor.
  •precursor (noun)
  • forebear,
  • avant-garde,
  • precursor,
  • originator,
  • ancestor,
  • precedent,
  • harbinger,
  • pioneer,
  • trailblazer,
  • scout,
  • founder,
  • antecedent.
  •presager (noun)
  • pre sager,
  • fore shadowers,
  • fore shadower,
  • fore-shadowers,
  • pre-sager,
  • fore-shadower.
  •prototype (noun)
  • mock-ups,
  • mockup,
  • mock up,
  • mock-up,
  • FIRSTS.
  •something, someone that comes before (noun)
  • previous,
  • former,
  • prior.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • parent.

Paraphrases for Predecessor:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    forerunner.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    commissioners.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    precursor, preceding, progenitor, prior, foregoing.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ancestor, successor, precedent.

Antonyms for Predecessor:

• n.

  • something, someone that comes before
    descendant, derivative, successor.
  • Other antonyms:
    son, daughter, by-product, outgrowth, spin off, offshoot.

Predecessor Sentence Examples:

• It was said that he resembled that fierce and able monster, Chaka the Wild Beast, his uncle, and certainly I perceived in him a likeness to his other uncle, Dingaan, Umpanda's predecessor, whom I had known but too well when I was a lad.

• These events and changes took place under the Administration of my predecessor.

Hypernym for Predecessor:

• n.

  • person
    forefather.

Hyponym for Predecessor:

• n.

  • person
    forerunner, precursor.