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predecessor
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PREDECESSOR
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed <the once-ubiquitous typewriter was the predecessor of today's electronic keyboard>
Synonyms antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), precursor, predecessor, prototype
Antonyms descendant (also descendent)
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