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predecessorsnounpl. of predecessor something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developedthe once-ubiquitous typewriter was the predecessor of today's electronic keyboard ancestors, antecedents, archetypes, daddies, foregoers, forerunners, granddaddies(also grandaddies), precursors, prototypes models, originalsoriginators, siresfathers, mothers descendants(also descendents) by-products, derivatives, offshoots, outgrowths, spin-offsdaughters, sons |