predecessors
- 1Plural of predecessor.
The current board inherited several problems from its predecessors.
These machines are far more efficient than their predecessors.
Note
A regular plural formed with -s, and it carries every meaning of its singular: the people who held a post or position before, the earlier models a newer device replaced, and, for directed graphs, the vertices with a path leading to a given one. It usually comes with a possessive that names whoever came after (its predecessors, their predecessors). Used of machines, it tends to mean outdated ones.
predecessors is a form of predecessor
predecessor, noun: Someone who held a state, position, or office before the person who later took it over. Full entry
- Forms
- predecessorpredecessors plural
- Spelling
- predecessor → predecessors: add -s
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