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heir

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"Inheritor"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛə̯/Part of speech nounSorted ehirStarts with HEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

Word origin

From Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hērēs.

Used in a sentence

  • My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
  • I am my father's heir and only son.
  • In ancient Greece, the Spartans developed rules that consolidated property into a narrow class of heirs, while the growing population of people left behind were reclassified as hypomeiones—inferiors.

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