successor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who follows next in order
    replacement.
    • he was President Lincoln's successor
  2. noun a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
  3. noun a person who inherits some title or office
    heir.

WordNet

Suc*ces"sor noun
Etymology
OE. successour, OF. successur, successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See Succeed.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    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.

Webster 1913