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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2010

Hobbes, as Bacon's continuator, argues thus: if all human knowledge is furnished by the senses, then our concepts and ideas are but the phantoms, divested of their sensual forms, of the real world.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich

He is not noticed in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, though as the continuator of Dugdale's Monasticon he unquestionably ought to have been.

From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George