Plural of predecessor

Forms of predecessor

Predecessors in a sentence

• "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704
• No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
• Today's cars emit less NoX at the tailpipe than their 20th-century predecessors did.From the entry tailpipe
• He was also refreshingly theory-lite – and free from the obligation to marmorealise any ideological predecessors.2018 April 25, Will Self, The Guardian. From the entry marmorealize
• Early fifteenth-century leg defenses (legharnesses) also differed little from their fourteenth-century predecessors.2012, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Military Technology, 2nd edition, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry legharness

Meaning of predecessor

1. noun 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.
2. noun A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
3. noun A vertex having a directed path to another vertex.

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Questions about the plural of predecessor

What is the plural of predecessor?

The plural of predecessor is predecessors.

Is predecessor countable?

Predecessor is a countable noun.