continuator

American  

[kuhn-tin-yoo-ey-ter] / kənˈtɪn juˌeɪ tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that continues.

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continuator British  

/ kənˈtɪnjʊˌeɪtə /

noun

1. a person who continues something, esp the work of someone else

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Etymology

Origin of continuator

First recorded in 1640–50; continuate + -or ²

Example Sentences

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continuator

"I liked to feel that I was above all a continuator," Hadrian writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2010

Now, I ask, what dependence can be placed on the continuator of the history in question?

From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas

John Stevens, the continuator of Dugdale's Monasticon in 1722.

From Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

"He was a good, just, and simple man," says the continuator of Nangis.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Hobbes, as Bacon's continuator, argues that if the senses furnish men with all knowledge, then concepts and ideas are nothing but phantoms of the material world more or less divested of their sensual forms.

From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.