Thesaurus:predecessor
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: any person or thing that immediately precedes another
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- ancient (obsolete)
- antecessor (obsolete)
- elder
- foreganger (archaic, rare)
- forerunner
- precessor (obsolete)
- predecessor
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- ancestor [⇒ thesaurus]
- predecessoress (rare)
- —
- foreking
- preregnant
Hypernyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “64. precursor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “predecessor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.