heir
heir is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues. And I his heir in misery alone. Pope. Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. -- Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other contingency.
- 2.To inherit; to succeed to. [R.] One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- acrospire
- adversity
- and
- apparent
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- bantling
- beneficiary
- block
- blow
- box
- branch
- breed
- brood
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- child
- chip
- cost
- crying
- damage
- daughter
- demon
- descendant
- descent
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- devisee
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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