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heir
[ air ]
noun
- a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- Law.
- (in common law) a person who inherits all the property of a deceased person, as by descent, relationship, will, or legal process.
- Civil Law. a person who legally succeeds to the place of a deceased person and assumes the rights and obligations of the deceased, as the liabilities for debts or the possessory rights to property.
- a person who inherits or is entitled to inherit the rank, title, position, etc., of another.
- a person or group considered as inheriting the tradition, talent, etc., of a predecessor.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to inherit; succeed to.
heir
/ ɛə /
noun
- civil law the person legally succeeding to all property of a deceased person, irrespective of whether such person died testate or intestate, and upon whom devolves as well as the rights the duties and liabilities attached to the estate
- any person or thing that carries on some tradition, circumstance, etc, from a forerunner
- an archaic word for offspring
Derived Forms
- ˈ³ó±ð¾±°ù±ô±ð²õ²õ, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó±ð¾±°ùl±ð²õ²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heir1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heir1
Example Sentences
Of course, financial complications can lead to other complications — family fights, disgruntled heirs and so on.
But we shouldn’t overlook his record on Social Security, because his heirs in the Republican Party and the Trump administration have picked up where he left off.
Edward I then invested his son Edward II as the Prince of Wales, and since then the title has customarily - though not always - been given to the heir apparent.
The panel resolves claims from people, or their heirs, who lost possession of cultural property during the Nazi era, which is now held in national collections in the UK.
He said he also agreed with Mr Kotak's views on the growing trend of business heirs turning wealth managers rather than building businesses ground up.
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