successor

successeur

Personne qui reprend un emploi, un poste ou un titre quand son précédent titulaire le quitte.

En anglais simple : A person who takes over a job, position, or title when its previous holder leaves.

• They have chosen her successor.
• The president welcomed his successor to the office.
• Who will be successor to the current king?

Comment l'utiliser : successor to someone (She was chosen as successor to the retiring director.); someone’s successor (His successor will start next month.)

Synonymes : replacement

Contraires : predecessor

Expressions courantes : successor to someone, appoint a successor, someone’s successor

héritier

Personne qui doit recevoir un titre ou des biens à la mort de leur détenteur.

En anglais simple : The person next in line to receive a title or property when its holder dies.

• Her eldest child is her successor.
• The duke died without a lawful successor.
• They disputed who was the rightful successor to the estate.

Comment l'utiliser : successor to someone/something (The prince is the rightful successor to the throne.)

Synonymes : heir

Expressions courantes : rightful successor, successor to someone, lawful successor