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語源

From 中期英語 predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“to retire, to die”) (English decease).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsɚ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, /ˈpɹi.də.sɛs.ɚ/

名詞

predecessor (plural predecessors)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: antecessor (rare), ancestor (rare)

   Antonym: successor

   Hyponym: forebear

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.

   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

     "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.

2. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.

   Antonym: successor

   The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.

   • 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:

     No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

3. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

同意語

• forerunner
• foreganger (archaic, rare)
• ancestor
• antecessor (rare)
• precursor

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アナグラム

• corepressed, reprocessed