(n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
(n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
(v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(3) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(5) Museveni, who has held power for nearly three decades, has never said he sees his son as his political heir.
(6) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(7) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
(8) The anointed heir, Xi Jinping , commanded less attention than former general secretary Jiang Zemin, seated next to current leader Hu Jintao.
(9) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(10) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
(11) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(12) In the past, they were mostly wealthy British citizens seeking to hold their money outside the UK to avoid income tax and capital gains tax on their earnings, and to pass their wealth to heirs without inheritance tax.
(13) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
(14) The American heirs of a German-Jewish family have launched an unprecedented partnership with German state institutions to try to recover a vast art collection stolen by the Nazis.
(15) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
(16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
(17) But both Kennedy and Marks are now dead and Mossa said they had been unable to establish an obvious heir.
(18) Carter and the former leaders of Finland, Norway and Ireland were hoping for talks with Kim Jong-il and his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong-un.
(19) The gene termed heir-1 was localized to the neuroblastoma consensus deletion at 1p36.2-p36.12.
(20) Since Evans’ original request to see Charles’s letters, the government tightened up the Freedom of Information Act to provide an “absolute exemption” on all requests relating to the Queen and the heir to the throne.
Inheritor
Definition:
(n.) One who inherits; an heir.
Example Sentences:
(1) That, I wanted to write about - in a sense it sounds condescending, and I don't mean it quite this way - I wanted to write about the way popular culture is an inheritor of something else.
(2) And they were the inheritors of an imperishable Labour movement tradition.
(3) However, a portion of cells gets rid of the prophage and gives rise to normal heritage inheritors permitting to use the bacteriophage as an efficient vehicle for introducing the transposons into the chromosome of E. chrysanthemi.
(4) That the English – to speak in generalisations – were not simply the tortured inheritors of Victorian repression and Edwardian good manners: before that we were a robust and raucous people, happy to welcome outsiders, eager to embrace the new in any form, who would cheerfully congregate in all weathers to hear stories and to celebrate stories.
(5) Paulhalsall I hereby declare you the lucky inheritor of a right old pickle.
(6) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(7) SNP can no longer claim to be the sole inheritors of the pre-Tony Blair social democratic party.
(8) It is a matter of shame that millions of women have lived and died as practising Christians while being told from the pulpit that they, as the inheritors of Eve, were responsible for all the sin in the world.
(9) It hampers labour mobility, encourages mass commuting, and increases the divide between house inheritors and the poor.
(10) Meanwhile those Tory advisers who went into Whitehall turned out to be the real reformers and inheritors of the Thatcherite mantle.
(11) The inheritor of millions of rupees in property and trade, Shah – who will only speak to the Guardian on the condition that he is not named – laughs when he explains how he added significantly to his family corpus by speculating on land in Dholera.
(12) In many ways, the subprime mortgage crisis, which was explicitly and disproportionately destructive in communities of color, is a direct inheritor of the federally sanctioned redlining policies of the mid-20th century.
(13) In a patrilineal society, the underlying preference for a boy consists of an intrinsic desire to continue the family name and have a male inheritor (urban, 27.6% and 30.6%; rural, 27.4% and 30.4% respectively).
(14) The inheritors of their mantle are Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys, the authors of a 2003 album entitled Bon Rêve that was excitedly hailed by one writer as 'the Cajun Sgt Pepper '.
(15) Another is the rise of a militant new party that claims to be the true inheritor of the ANC's radical legacy.
(16) Now Paul, 50, is a senator and firmly established as the inheritor of his father's political movement.
(17) Even those of us who were not there at the time are inheritors of the shame."
(18) In some places, as you know, the person who loses an election gets exiled or executed, not asked to be secretary of state.” Clinton also sought to position herself as the natural inheritor of Obama’s historic achievement as the first African American president – harking all the way back to the “hot summer” of 1776 for inspiration.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest What’s at stake in New Hampshire: a two-minute crash course Once again, the two sparred most of all over who deserved to be seen as Obama’s progressive inheritor.
(20) The ‘death tax’ Trump called for the repeal of the estate tax, a fine levied on wealthy inheritors that affects about 0.2% of all Americans , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, as the tax exempts the first $5.45m a person inherits.