Predecessor
noun
1.
a person who precedes another in an office, position, etc.
2.
something succeeded or replaced by something else:
The new monument in the park is more beautiful than its predecessor.
3.
Archaic. an ancestor; forefather.
noun
1.
a person who precedes another, as in an office
2.
something that precedes something else
3.
an ancestor; forefather
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