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successors

successors is the plural of successor.

Meaning of successor

Noun

successor (plural successors)

  1. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
    • George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
    Synonyms:
    aftercomer
  2. The next heir in order or succession.
  3. A person who inherits a title or office.
  4. The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
    • A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.

Phrases with successors

Questions about successors

What is successors the plural of?
Successors is the plural of successor.

Words near successors in the dictionary

  1. successlessness
  2. successor
  3. successor ideology
  4. successoral
  5. successorial
  6. successors
  7. successorship
  8. successorships
  9. successory
  10. successour
  11. successours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: successors (page history and authors); successor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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