successor
/səkˈsɛsɚ/ noun C1- 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.· They haven't yet named her successor.
- The next heir in order or succession.
- A person who inherits a title or office.
- The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another. · A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.
Plural successors
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Morrel descended and came forth to meet it, followed by the soldiers and sailors there assembled, to whom he had repeated the promise already given, that Dantès should be the successor to the late Captain Leclere.
We watch the children, our successors, play.
“Do not speak thus, for your reply evinces neither logic nor philosophy; everything is relative, my dear young friend, from the king who stands in the way of his successor, to the employee who keeps his rival out of a place.
Now, in the event of the king’s death, his successor inherits a crown,—when the employee dies, the supernumerary steps into his shoes, and receives his salary of twelve thousand livres.
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