All antecessor synonyms

noun antecessor

• mock-up — a model, often full-size, for study, testing, or teaching: a mock-up of an experimental aircraft.
• bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
• forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
• founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
• forefather — an ancestor.
• origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
• parentage — derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage.
• descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
• genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
• heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
• lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
• ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
• parent — a father or a mother.
• pioneer — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
• originator — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
• original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
• prior — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
• former — preceding in time; prior or earlier: during a former stage in the proceedings.
• archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
• standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• ideal — a standard of perfection or excellence.
• criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
• paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
• type — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
• first — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
• family — the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
• seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
• birth — When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
• antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
• ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
• precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
• forerunner — predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
• progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
• foremother — a female ancestor.
• primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
• race — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
• pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
• house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
• breed — A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
• kindred — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
• source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
• derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
• blood — Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
• stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
• predecessor — parent
• prototype — the original or model on which something is based or formed.