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successour

successour is the obsolete spelling 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.

Forms of successour

pluralsuccessours

Questions about successour

What is successour the obsolete spelling of?
Successour is the obsolete spelling of successor.

Words near successour in the dictionary

  1. successorial
  2. successors
  3. successorship
  4. successorships
  5. successory
  6. successour
  7. successours
  8. succi
  9. succiferous
  10. succimer
  11. succin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: successour (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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