Antonym: heiress. Similar words: their, weird, heist, height, atheist, heinous, polytheism, polytheistic. Meaning: [er /eə] n. 1. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another 2. a person who inherits some title or office.
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91) Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
92) With equal grace and dispatch she produced the son and heir the Shah craved.
93) Catch him in Birmingham tonight and form your own judgment on the supposed heir to Bevan, Foot and Kinnock.
94) The addressee is Titius, heir to a share of the testator's estate.
95) But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford.
96) The last case concerned an implied trust at the expense of the intestate heir.
97) Like Degas, the heir in this respect of Ingres, he placed great emphasis on drawing.
98) No, she may give me her money and my legitimate heir, and that is all.
99) Soon, he'd accept Lachlan as a better heir than Hector would have been, and all would be well again.
100) The question of remarriage and the provision of an heir to the unstable throne was inevitably rearing its head.
101) Davis led the team with 22 passes defended, and the heir apparent is third-year man Tyronne Drakeford.
102) But his heir, the present duke, no longer holds pole position.
103) He has mentioned his intestate heir, and this is sufficient to allow him to claim a trust exists in his favour.
104) He needed an heir, and was about to make a formal offer for the hand of Virginia Grafton.
105) Burton had no middle-class expectations(sentencedict.com), and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to.
106) Late in life, King Robert had still fathered no male heir.
107) Richard was now heir to the throne of the Angevin Empire.
108) The point of a general damnatio was to impose on the heir a general obligation to pay the legacies left.
109) The real estate descended to the heir in accordance with rules laid down by statutes of 1833 and 1859.
110) His intention, quite clearly, must be that on her death she should be succeeded by her intestate heir.
111) The political tension, both between the king and heir and between the political groupings, rose rapidly.
112) Your half-brother lies deep inside the Dark Realm and, unless he is rescued, you are Tara's heir.
113) He left a son and heir, John, aged twenty-two, and a widow, who died in 1349.
114) Ought this to be enforced in different circumstances against John's innocent son and heir?
115) After William III's death in 1702 and Anne's succession Sophia became the immediate heir to the throne.
116) Having heard of his family's desire for an heir(sentence dictionary), she fantasised a little as to whether his wife might be expecting again.
117) This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter, whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861.
118) Experts on noble lineage detect a change in the thirty six year old heir.
119) And talking of children, Carlotta's lost the heir to her kingdom.
120) But Thieu Tri had chosen him as heir because of his mild disposition, and visitors to his court confirmed his moderation.