antecessor
3 synonyms and 2 antonyms for antecessor, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A person or thing that comes before another.
Synonyms by Meaning
2. noun
A person from whose line someone else is descended.
“At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of ancestor.
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