All 4 Uses of
predecessor
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- When we saw this, there was nothing else for us to do but to rise from our chairs, shake our two predecessors warmly by the hand and congratulate them on thinking of this charming little joke, which proved that the old French sense of humor was never likely to become extinct.†
Chpt 3predecessors = people who precede others in time
- I did not protest, first, because I dislike scandal, and, second, because I thought that your predecessors, MM.†
Chpt 4 *
- Let me know by a letter handed to Mme. Giry, who will see that it reaches me, that you accept, as your predecessors did, the conditions in my memorandum-book relating to my monthly allowance.†
Chpt 7
- We must not forget that the managers had an idea at the back of their minds, all the time, that this strange incident might be an unpleasant practical joke on the part of their predecessors and that it would not do to divulge it prematurely.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
one who precedes another in time -- such as the previous mayor relative to the current mayor