Successor

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Successor \Suc*ces"sor\, n. [OE. successour, OF. successur,
     successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See {Succeed}.]
     One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which
     another has left, and sustains the like part or character; --
     correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased
     king. --Chaucer.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of
           chattels, without naming their successors, vests an
           absolute property in them so lond as the corporation
           subsists.                                --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  successor
       n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
            Lincoln's successor" [syn: {replacement}]
       2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
          someone
       3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: {heir}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "successor":
     adherent, aftermath, apparent heir, appendage, attendant,
     backup man, beneficiary heir, buff, cavaliere servente, conclusion,
     consequence, coparcener, courtier, dangler, dependent, descendant,
     disciple, dynasty, effect, fan, fideicommissary heir,
     fiduciary heir, flunky, follower, following, hanger-on, heir,
     heir apparent, heir expectant, heir general, heir in tail,
     heir of entail, heir of inventory, heir of line, heir portioner,
     heir presumptive, heir whatsoever, heiress, henchman, heritor,
     homme de cour, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, joint heir,
     line, lineage, next in line, offspring, orphan, parasite, partisan,
     posterity, presumptive heir, public, pursuer, pursuivant, relict,
     remainderman, replacement, reversioner, satellite, sectary, sequel,
     shadow, stooge, supporter, survivor, tagtail, tail, trainbearer,
     votary, ward heeler, widow, widower
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SuccessoR
       
          A language for {distributed computing} derived from {SR}.
       
          ["SuccessoR: Refinements to SR", R.A. Olsson et al, TR 84-3, U
          Arizona 1984].
       
          (1994-12-15)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  successor
       
          {daughter}
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUCCESSOR. One who follows or comes into the place of another. 
       2. This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to 
  any corporation. The word heir is more correctly applicable to a common 
  person who takes an estate by descent. 12 Pick. R. 322; Co. Litt. 8 b. 
       3. It is also used to designate a person who has been appointed or 
  elected to some office, after another person.