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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#m1)

2) A predecessor is a thing that came before another thing and was replaced by it, like an older model of a phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x1)
- This phone is faster than its predecessor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x2)
- The king's predecessor was his uncle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x3)
- The predecessor of 100 is 99. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x4)
- Write the predecessor of each number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x5)
- The new bridge is much wider than its predecessor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x6)
- I saw him, last winter, make your predecessor run, and his predecessor before him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predecessor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.