The matter of his successor is still under debate.
Source: tatoeba (286184)
Successor
//səkˈsɛsɚ//
Synonyms for "successor" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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10 entriesderived
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
207 translations across 49 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- pasardhës noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- pasardhës noun (next heir in order or succession)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- διάδοχος noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- διάδοχος noun (next heir in order or succession)
Arabic
3 entries- خَلِيف noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- وَارِث noun (next heir in order or succession)
- وَارِثَة noun (next heir in order or succession)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- varis noun (next heir in order or succession)
- varis noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- xələf noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Belarusian
4 entries- засту́пнiк noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- засту́пнiца noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- насле́днік noun (next heir in order or succession)
- насле́дніца noun (next heir in order or succession)
Bulgarian
4 entries- насле́дник noun (next heir in order or succession)
- насле́дничка noun (next heir in order or succession)
- наследник noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- наследник noun (integer or cardinal immediately following another)
Catalan
2 entries- successor noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- successora noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 繼任者 /继任者 noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- 繼承人 /继承人 noun (next heir in order or succession)
Czech
4 entries- dědic noun (next heir in order or succession)
- dědička noun (next heir in order or succession)
- následnice noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- následník noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Danish
2 entries- efterfølger noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- efterfølger noun (next heir in order or succession)
Dutch
2 entries- opvolger noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- opvolgster noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Esperanto
4 entries- heredonto noun (next heir in order or succession)
- posteulo noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- posteulo noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- sekvanto noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Finnish
4 entries- kruununperijä noun (next heir in order or succession)
- manttelinperijä noun (next heir in order or succession)
- seuraaja noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- seuraaja noun (next heir in order or succession)
French
4 entries- successeur noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- successeur noun (next heir in order or succession)
- successeuse noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- successeuse noun (next heir in order or succession)
Georgian
4 entries- მემკვიდრე noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- მემკვიდრე noun (next heir in order or succession)
- მემკვიდრე noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- შემდეგი noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
German
4 entries- Erbe noun (next heir in order or succession)
- Erbin noun (next heir in order or succession)
- Nachfolger noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- Nachfolger noun (next heir in order or succession)
Greek
3 entries- διάδοχος noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- διάδοχος noun (next heir in order or succession)
- διάδοχος noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Hindi
4 entries- उत्तरवर्ती noun (integer or cardinal immediately following another)
- उत्तराधिकारी noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- उत्तराधिकारी noun (next heir in order or succession)
- उत्तराधिकारी noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Icelandic
1 entries- eftirfari noun (integer or cardinal immediately following another)
Indonesian
3 entries- penerus noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- pewaris noun (next heir in order or succession)
- pewaris noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Italian
4 entries- erede noun (next heir in order or succession)
- succeditrice noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- succeditrice noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- successora noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Japanese
4 entries- 後任 noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- 後任 noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- 後継者 noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- 後継者 noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Kazakh
3 entries- мұрагер noun (next heir in order or succession)
- ізбасар noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- ізбасар noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Korean
4 entries- 계승자 noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- 계승자 noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- 상속인 noun (next heir in order or succession)
- 후계자 noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Latin
3 entries- successor noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- successor noun (next heir in order or succession)
- successor noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Ligurian
1 entries- sucesô noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Macedonian
2 entries- наследник noun (next heir in order or succession)
- наследничка noun (next heir in order or succession)
Māori
4 entries- kairīwhi noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- piki tūranga noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- piki tūranga noun (next heir in order or succession)
- piki tūranga noun (next heir in order or succession)
Norn
1 entries- efterman noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- etterfølger noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- etterkommer noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- oppfølger noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- etterfylgjar noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- etterfølgar noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- etterfølgjar noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- etterkomar noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Occitan
1 entries- successor noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Old English
2 entries- æfterfylgend noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- æftergenga noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Persian
1 entries- وارث noun (next heir in order or succession)
Polish
4 entries- dziedzic noun (next heir in order or succession)
- dziedziczka noun (next heir in order or succession)
- następca noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- następca noun (next heir in order or succession)
Portuguese
4 entries- sucessor noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- sucessor noun (next heir in order or succession)
- sucessor noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- sucessora noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Romanian
3 entries- moștenitor noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- succesoare noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- succesor noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Russian
4 entries- насле́дник noun (next heir in order or succession)
- насле́дник noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- насле́дница noun (next heir in order or succession)
- насле́дница noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- následnica noun (next heir in order or succession)
- následnīk noun (next heir in order or succession)
- násljednica noun (next heir in order or succession)
- násljednīk noun (next heir in order or succession)
Slovak
4 entries- dedič noun (next heir in order or succession)
- dedička noun (next heir in order or succession)
- následník noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- následníčka noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Slovene
4 entries- naslednica noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- naslednica noun (next heir in order or succession)
- naslednik noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- naslednik noun (next heir in order or succession)
Spanish
3 entries- postremo noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- sucesor noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- sucesora noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Swedish
2 entries- efterföljare noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- efterträdare noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Tajik
1 entries- ворис noun (next heir in order or succession)
Turkish
3 entries- ardıl noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- halef noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- varis noun (next heir in order or succession)
Ukrainian
4 entries- наслі́дник noun (next heir in order or succession)
- наслі́дниця noun (next heir in order or succession)
- насту́пник noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
- насту́пниця noun (person or thing that immediately follows another)
Urdu
1 entries- وارث noun (next heir in order or succession)
Uzbek
1 entries- voris noun (next heir in order or succession)
Welsh
2 entries- olynydd noun (person who inherits a title or office)
- olynyddes noun (person who inherits a title or office)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Every positive integer has exactly one successor.
Source: tatoeba (1686198)
Two is the only prime whose successor is prime.
Source: tatoeba (1686227)
I've already picked my successor.
Source: tatoeba (3726775)
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