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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heir |
| Synonyms: | beneficiary, descendant, follower, heritor, inheritor, next in line, replacement, scion |
| Main Entry: | candidate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person desiring political office, job |
| Synonyms: | applicant, aspirant, bidder, claimant, competitor, contender, contestant, dark horse, entrant, favorite son, handshaker, hopeful*, job-hunter, nominee, office-seeker, petitioner, possibility, possible choice, pothunter, runner, seeker, solicitant, stumper, successor, suitor, whistle-stopper, write-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heir |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who inherits possessions |
| Synonyms: | beneficiary, crown prince/princess, devisee, grantee, heritor, inheritor, next in line, scion, successor |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
| Antonyms: | heiress |
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, bambino, brood, chip off old block, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeniture, progeny, pup, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | begotten, branch, brood, child, chip off old block, graft, heir, heiress, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | standby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substitute |
| Synonyms: | assistant, backup, deputy, double, fill-in, pinch-hitter, relief, replacement, reserve, stalwart, stand-in, sub, successor, temp, temporary, understudy |
| Main Entry: | substitute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone or something that takes the place of another |
| Synonyms: | agent, alternate, assistant, auxiliary, backup, changeling, delegate, deputy, dernier ressort, double, dummy, equivalent, expediency, expedient, fill-in, ghost, ghost writer, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, pinch-hitter, procurator, proxy, recourse, refuge, relay, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, resort, resource, stand-in, standby, stopgap, sub, succedaneum, successor, supplanter, supply, surrogate, symbol, temp, temporary, temporary expedient, understudy, vicar |
| Antonyms: | permanent |
| Main Entry: | understudy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substitute |
| Synonyms: | alternate, backup, double, fill-in, pinch hitter, replacement, reserve, stand-by, stand-in, sub, successor |
| Main Entry: | posterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | future generations |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, children, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, next generation, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, stock, succeeding generations, successors, unborn |
| Antonyms: | past |
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