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.
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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121) Madresfield Court at Malvern, Worcs, had stayed empty because the previous tenant had no male heir.
122) It is Lachlan, eaten up by jealousy, who is plotting against my heir.
123) Mrs Armitage's heir is already asserting his rights in the matter but that is not my concern.
124) The flat tax is the biggest plank in publishing heir Steve Forbes' platform.
125) But could they ever secure a conviction on that basis against an heir to the throne?
126) Having delivered an heir to the Kang clan, her place was secure, unlike with my birth.
127) He wanted to beget an heir.
128) Heir apparent to inherit housing, land deed tax levy.
129) to be heir to a large fortune.
130) He was seen as Mr Olsen's heir apparent.
131) He claims to be the rightful heir.
132) But he considered himself the true ruler of Egypt as well, the rightful heir to the spiritual traditions practiced by pharaohs such as Ramses II and Thutmose III.
133) Greedy heir wait for the old man to snuff out.
134) They might even have a son, heir to the earldom of Stane.
135) A family name becomes defunct when the only heir dies any son.
136) Charles: The eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the British throne.
137) Set during the second world war, Stella's story is intercut with the lives of her son (in the army and heir to an estate in Ireland) and Louie, a vapid good-time girl who crosses Harrison's path.
138) He had no title and was not the heir to a great estate.
139) Inbreeding may have caused the deformity and even prevented him from producing an heir with his wife, who was probably his half sister.
140) Diana seemed a strong young girl who could be counted upon to produce an heir.
141) As Claudius narrates his life, we witness Augustus' attempts to find an heir, often foiled by his wife Livia who wants her son Tiberius to become emperor.
142) Emperor of Rome( a. d. 14-37). Chosen by Augustus to be heir to the throne, he was a suspicious, tyrannical ruler.
143) The crown prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne.
144) Shandong provincially established hospital cardiovascular disease prevention center Director Li Ren became heir to professor to enumerate the following 10 kind of special kind of core stem.
145) Edward II to the Welsh people as Prince of Wales,(http://sentencedict.com/heir.html) a title held by the heir to the throne ever since.
146) 1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.
147) To preserve the farm intact, he transferred it to one heir.
148) In the Balobedu of the Limpopo Province of South Africa, the Queen's eldest daughter becomes heir to the complete exclusion of males.
149) His expected much from his son and made him crown prince and heir apparent.
150) The death on October 22nd of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, heir to the Saudithrone and half-brother to King Abdullah, raised questions about the Saudi succession.