Synonyms of the word

successor

• n. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
• n. The next heir in order or succession.
• n. A person who inherits a title or office.
• n. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.

compeer

• n. (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone…
• v. To be equal with; to match.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

heir

• n. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
• n. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
• n. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

peer

• v. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
• v. To come in sight; to appear.
• n. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
• n. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
• n. A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges…
• n. A comrade; a companion; an associate.
• v. To make equal in rank.
• v. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to…
• n. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

progeny

• n. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants.
• n. (countable) A result of a creative effort.

replacement

• n. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
• n. The act of replacing something.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.