predecessor

«predecessor» in Mova's school dictionary: the person who had a job or position before someone else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a predecessor, predecessors)

meaning for a pupil

1) A predecessor is the person who had a job or position before someone else. tree →

2) A predecessor is a thing that came before another thing and was replaced by it, like an older model of a phone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history: a king's predecessor. In formal speech: the new head teacher's predecessor. In maths, the predecessor of a number is the number just before it: the predecessor of 10 is 9. Phrases: his predecessor, predecessor of.

examples

• The new head teacher is stricter than her predecessor. tree →
• This phone is faster than its predecessor. tree →
• The king's predecessor was his uncle. tree →
• The predecessor of 100 is 99. tree →
• Write the predecessor of each number. tree →
• The new bridge is much wider than its predecessor. tree →
• I saw him, last winter, make your predecessor run, and his predecessor before him. tree →

note

Opposite: successor. In maths (taught in some countries): predecessor = the number minus 1; successor = the number plus 1. Countable. Stress: PREE-di-ses-er (UK) or PRED-e-ses-er (US).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «predecessor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.