All successor synonyms
suc·ces·sor
S s noun successor
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- heiress — a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.
- grantee — the receiver of a grant.
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- legatee — a person to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- heritor — inheritor.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- locum — locum tenens.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- donee — a person to whom a gift is made.
- devisee — a person to whom property, esp realty, is devised by will
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- inheritors — a person who inherits; heir.