heiress
heiress is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1., A female heir.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acrospire
- apparent
- bantling
- beneficiary
- block
- branch
- breed
- brood
- child
- chip
- daughter
- descendant
- descent
- devisee
- estate
- fall
- family
- far
- farrow
- father
- feoffee
- filial
- filiation
- for
- from
- fruit
- generation
- gentry
- grantee
- great-grandchild
- heir
- heredity
- heritor
- holder
- impropriator
- inheritor
- inheritress
- inheritrix
- issue
- lady
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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