Synonyms:
successor, replacement
Meaning: a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor"
Synonyms:
successor
Meaning: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
Usage examples
A SUCCESSOR
At that time Honorius, successor to Boniface, was Bishop of the Apostolic see.
How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus, successor to Mellitus. [624 A.D.]
It did not take me many days to discover that Henriette was a worthy successor to her late husband.
The Romans, having returned to their city, and Maximus being dead, elected Avitus, a Roman, as his successor.
When he had not himself properly governed his people, he was dethroned, and a successor was appointed by acclamation.
The aged Theodora had named as her successor on the throne Michael Stratioticus, a contemporary of her own who had been an able soldier twenty-five years back.
But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.
He had the right, according to the ancient constitution of the monarchy, to designate his own successor, choosing for this purpose either one of his sons or any other person.
While the Incognita hesitated, Miss Bydel, a collateral and uneducated successor to a large and unexpected fortune, said, 'Pray, first of all, young woman, what took you over to foreign parts?