Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Inheritor”4 letters
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