Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: voorganger
- Amharic: ሆኗል
- Arabic: السلف
- Azerbaijani: sələfi
- Bashkir: элгәре
- Belarusian: папярэднік
- Bulgarian: предшественик
- Bengali: পূর্বসুরী
- Bosnian: prethodnik
- Catalan: predecessor
- Cebuano: gisundan
- Czech: předchůdce
- Welsh: rhagflaenydd
- Danish: forgænger
- German: Vorgänger
- Greek: προκάτοχό του
- Esperanto: antaŭulo
- Spanish: predecesor
- Estonian: eelkäija
- Basque: aurrekoak
- Persian: سلف
- Finnish: edeltäjä
- French: prédécesseur
- Irish: réamhtheachtaí
- Scottish Gaelic: bh ' ann roimhe sin
- Galician: antecesor
- Gujarati: પુરોગામી
- Hebrew: קודמו
- Hindi: पूर्ववर्ती
- Croatian: prethodnik
- Haitian: predesesè
- Hungarian: elődje
- Armenian: նախորդը
- Indonesian: pendahulunya
- Icelandic: forvera
- Italian: predecessore
- Japanese: 前身である
- Javanese: leluhur
- Georgian: წინამორბედი
- Kazakh: ізашары
- Khmer: មុន
- Kannada: ಹಿಂದಿನ
- Korean: 이전
- Kyrgyz: предшественник
- Latin: decessor noster
- Luxembourgish: Virgänger
- Lao: ລຸດ
- Lithuanian: pirmtakas
- Latvian: priekštece
- Malagasy: nodimbiasany
- Mari: калыкчот
- Maori: mua
- Macedonian: претходник
- Malayalam: മുൻഗാമി
- Mongolian: өмнөх
- Marathi: दौऱ्यावर
- Hill Mari: предшественник
- Malay: pendahulu
- Maltese: - predeċessur
- Burmese: နောင်
- Nepali: पूर्ववर्ती
- Dutch: voorganger
- Norwegian: forgjenger
- Punjabi: ਪੁਰਾਣੇ
- Papiamento: profesor
- Polish: poprzednik
- Portuguese: antecessor
- Romanian: predecesorul
- Russian: предшественник
- Sinhalese: පූර්වගාමියා
- Slovak: predchodca
- Slovenian: predhodnik
- Albanian: paraardhësi
- Serbian: претходник
- Sundanese: miheulaan
- Swedish: föregångare
- Swahili: mtangulizi
- Tamil: முன்னோடி
- Telugu: ముందున్న
- Tajik: муқаддима
- Thai: ร่
- Tagalog: hinalinhan
- Turkish: selefi
- Tatar: элгәр
- Udmurt: азьвылчиоссылэсь
- Ukrainian: попередник
- Urdu: پیشرو
- Uzbek: salafiy
- Vietnamese: người tiền nhiệm
- Xhosa: predecessor
- Yiddish: פאָרויסגייער
- Chinese: 前任
Synonyms, close and similar words for predecessor
- precursor
- antecedent
- forebears
- forerunner
- herald
- harbinger
- forefather
- ancestor
- forebear
- prototype