successors
- 1Plural of successor.
The retiring chairman left detailed notes for his successors.
Several successors competed to lead the party after the leader resigned.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s, that carries every meaning of the singular: a line of officeholders or heirs, one after another, and also the numbers that each follow the one before. Used of people, successors usually names a chain stretching forward in time (his successors in the post) rather than a group holding the office at once. Possessives follow the usual pattern: a successor's duties, the successors' records.
successors is a form of successor
successor, noun: A person or thing that immediately takes over another's office or title. Full entry
- Forms
- successorsuccessors plural
- Spelling
- successor → successors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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