as in inheritor
a person who has the right to inherit property
upon his death, Mr. Parkworth's property was divided evenly among his heirs, four sons and three daughters
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Recent Examples of heir
Aside from the torch that never quite went out with Charlie, Ashley’s Pia gets set up on three dates with Asim Chaudhry’s heir, Phil Dunster’s (Ted Lasso, Surface) free-spirit and Nikesh Patel’s teacher.
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
Grant encouraged Ross to buttonhole Raoul Fleischmann, who was the heir to a baking fortune yet bored with his lot.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Rob Walton, the billionaire heir of the Walton dynasty who purchased the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion in 2022, donated $13.8 million to conservative efforts over four years.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
McCaskey, the originally reluctant heir to the NFL franchise that her father, George Halas, founded in 1920, died Thursday.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
Grant encouraged Ross to buttonhole Raoul Fleischmann, who was the heir to a baking fortune yet bored with his lot.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Rob Walton, the billionaire heir of the Walton dynasty who purchased the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion in 2022, donated $13.8 million to conservative efforts over four years.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
McCaskey, the originally reluctant heir to the NFL franchise that her father, George Halas, founded in 1920, died Thursday.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heir
Noun
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.—
Stephen Jay Gould,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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The camps are home to descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced to flee during wars with Israel decades ago.—
Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The prototype's less disturbing Clone descendants, however, could one day be vacuuming our carpets.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
20 Feb. 2025
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Her new friend Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) is a former model who’s convinced herself that she’s caught a good-enough prize in Greg (Jon Gries), the older man who married—and then murdered—the hapless heiress Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) in Season 2.—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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It was owned by Louisa Carpenter, the Woolworth heiress.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Heir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heir. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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