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predecessor

/ˈpriːdɪsɛsə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpriːdɪsɛsə/
predecessor
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

pre - de - ces - sor -> predecessor

Myanmar meaning

(n) အရာဌာန၊အလုပ်အကိုင်တစ်ခုတွင်အလျင်တာဝန်ယူလုပ်ကိုင်သွားသူ။ အလျင်လူ။ ယခုအသုံးပြုနေသောပစ္စည်းဖြင့်အစားထိုးလိုက်သောအလျင်ပစ္စည်း။ အရင်ဟာ။

Full entry

predecessor /'pri:dÇsesǝ(r); US 'predǝs-/ n

၁။ အရာဌာန၊ အလုပ်အကိုင်တစ်ခုတွင် အလျင်တာဝန်ယူ လုပ်ကိုင်သွားသူ။ အလျင်လူ။ The decision was made by my predecessor as manager.
၂။ ယခုအသုံးပြုနေသော ပစ္စည်းဖြင့် အစားထိုး လိုက်သော အလျင်ပစ္စည်း။ အရင်ဟာ။ The latest car phones are much more efficient than their predecessors. Compare SUCCESSOR

More examples
  • Algood seems to have learned nothing from the faults of his predecessors.
  • The scheme, like its two predecessors, had little chance to prove itself.
Synonyms
precursor, forerunner, ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, former, previous, prior, prototype, something
Antonyms
derivative, descendant, successor
Cross references
precursorforerunnerancestorantecedentantecessorforebearforegoerformerpreviouspriorprototypesomethingderivativedescendantsuccessorarecarcomparedecisionefficientmademanagermoremuchthanthetheirwas
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