Definition of continuator in English:
continuator
noun kənˈtɪnjʊeɪtəkənˈtɪnjəˌweɪdər
1A person or thing that continues something or maintains continuity.
the popes succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule
Example sentencesExamples
- From its very first days as a continuator of the wartime OSS, the ranks of the Agency were dominated by members of the liberal establishment.
- The second sees in him a continuator of speculative theology - that is, a theologian who had to switch languages in order to speak of Greek philosophy.
- As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour reformism.
- This Germanic people saw themselves as the continuators of the weakened Imperial power.
- 1.1 A person who writes a continuation of another's work.
the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘In my notions about the State,’ he wrote to his mother in February 1864, ‘I am quite papa's son, and his continuator.’
Definition of continuator in US English:
continuator
nounkənˈtinyəˌwādərkənˈtɪnjəˌweɪdər
1A person or thing that continues something or maintains continuity.
the popes succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule
Example sentencesExamples
- From its very first days as a continuator of the wartime OSS, the ranks of the Agency were dominated by members of the liberal establishment.
- As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour reformism.
- This Germanic people saw themselves as the continuators of the weakened Imperial power.
- The second sees in him a continuator of speculative theology - that is, a theologian who had to switch languages in order to speak of Greek philosophy.
- 1.1 A person who writes a continuation of another's work.
the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘In my notions about the State,’ he wrote to his mother in February 1864, ‘I am quite papa's son, and his continuator.’