Usually means: Ancestor or forerunner in any field.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word predecessor:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. predecessor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. predecessor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. predecessor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. predecessor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. predecessor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Predecessor, predecessor: Wordnik
  7. predecessor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. predecessor: Wiktionary
  9. predecessor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. predecessor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. predecessor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Predecessor, predecessor: Dictionary.com
  13. predecessor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. predecessor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Predecessor (graph theory), Predecessor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Predecessor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. predecessor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. predecessor: Rhymezone
  19. predecessor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. predecessor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. predecessor: Free Dictionary
  22. predecessor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. predecessor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. predecessor: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. predecessor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. predecessor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Predecessor: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. predecessor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
noun:  A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
noun:  (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

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