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heir (pluralheirs)

Someone whoinherits, or is designated to inherit, theproperty of another.
Synonyms:(law)beneficiary,inheritor
My brother is theheir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
- c.1590–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:
  I am my father'sheir and only son.
- 1765,William Blackstone, “Of Corporations”, inCommentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press,→OCLC,page469:
  As to eleemoſynary corporations, by thedotation the founder and hisheirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf:[…]
- 1959,Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, inThe Unknown Ajax:
  And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott[…]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for hisheir.
- 2023 January 16,Evan Osnos, “The Getty Family’s Trust Issues”, inThe New Yorker‎^[1], New York, N.Y.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on16 September 2023:
  In ancient Greece, the Spartans developed rules that consolidated property into a narrow class ofheirs, while the growing population of people left behind were reclassified ashypomeiones—inferiors.
One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, ahereditary title or office.
Synonym:inheritor
Coordinate term:spare
As theheir to the British throne, thePrince of Wales is a very public figure.
- 2022 September 16, Megan Specia, “Prince William Moves Into the Spotlight as Heir to the Throne”, inThe New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on30 April 2023:
  Now, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, William, 40, is the Prince of Wales and the heir to the British throne.
- 2023 July 4,Lucy Mangan, “The King Who Never Was review – the gripping tale of the first royal to be arrested 'since Marie Antoinette'”, inKatharine Viner, editor,The Guardian‎^[3], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on6 August 2023:
  Vittorio Emanuele, the Italian throne's lastheir, was apprehended in 1978 after a teen died from a gunshot on an exclusive island.
Asuccessor in arole, representingcontinuity with thepredecessor.
Synonyms:seeThesaurus:successor
- 1725,Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl.,The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot,→OCLC:
  And I hisheir in misery alone.
- 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
  "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and theirheirs and dauphins. […]"
- 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, inThe Economist‎^[4], volume407, number8835, London:The Economist Group,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on27 July 2023, page12:
  India is run by gerontocrats andepigones: grey hairs and groomedheirs.
- 2015 February 1,Howard Tayler,Schlock Mercenary‎^[5], archived fromthe original on14 May 2024:
  Sergeant Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse-warrior would see in him a fitheir.

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one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another

Albanian:trashëgimtar (sq) m
Arabic:وَارِث m(wāriṯ),وَارِثَة f(wāriṯa)
Egyptian Arabic:وارس m(wāris)
Moroccan Arabic:ورتة f(wərəta)(all the heirs)
Aragonese:hereu m
Armenian:ժառանգ (hy)(žaṙang)
Asturian:herederu (ast) m
Azerbaijani:varis (az)
Basque:jaraunsle,oinordeko,oinorde
Belarusian:насле́днік m(nasljédnik),насле́дніца f(nasljédnica)
Bulgarian:насле́дник (bg) m(naslédnik),насле́дничка f(naslédnička)
Catalan:hereu (ca) m,hereter m
Cebuano:manununod
Chinese:
Mandarin:繼承人 /继承人 (zh)(jìchéngrén),繼承者 /继承者 (zh)(jìchéngzhě)
Czech:dědic (cs) m,dědička (cs) f
Danish:arving (da) c
Dutch:erfgenaam (nl) m,erfgename (nl) f
Egyptian:
(jwꜥw)
Esperanto:heredanto
Estonian:pärija
Extremaduran:hereeru
Finnish:perillinen (fi),perijä (fi)
French:héritier (fr) m,héritière (fr) f,successeur (fr) m,successeuse (fr) f,successrice (fr) f
Galician:herdeiro (gl) m,heree m(archaic)
Georgian:მემკვიდრე(memḳvidre)
German:Erbe (de) m,Erbin (de) f
Gothic:𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐌰 m(arbja),𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉 f(arbjō)
Greek:κληρονόμος (el) m or f(klironómos)
Ancient:κληρόνομος m(klērónomos)
Hebrew:יוֹרֵשׁ (he) m(yorésh),יורשת f
Higaonon:manonod
Hindi:उत्तराधिकारी (hi) m(uttarādhikārī)
Hungarian:örökös (hu)
Hunsrik:Erreb m
Icelandic:erfingi (is) m
Indonesian:pewaris (id)
Irish:oidhre m,beangán m
Italian:erede (it) m or f,ereditiera (it) f
Japanese:相続人 (ja)(そうぞくにん, sōzokunin),跡取り (ja)(あととり, atotori),継承者 (ja)(けいしょうしゃ, keishōsha)
Kabuverdianu:erderu
Kashubian:dzedzéc
Kazakh:мұрагер(mūrager)
Khmer:ទាយាទ (km)(tiəyiət)
Korean:상속인(相續人)(sangsogin),계승자(繼承者)(gyeseungja)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish:mîratgir (ku),wêris (ku)
Kyrgyz:мураскор(muraskor),мурасчы(murascı)
Lao:ທາຍາດ(thā nyāt)
Latin:hērēs (la) m or f
Latvian:mantinieks m,mantiniece f
Lithuanian:įpėdinis m,paveldėtojas m,paveldėtoja f
Macedonian:наследник m(naslednik),наследничка f(naslednička)
Malay:pewaris (ms),waris (ms)
Maori:whākapi,kaiwhakakapi,kairīwhi
Norwegian:
Bokmål:arving m
Occitan:eiretièr m
Old Czech:erb m
Old English:ierfa m
Pashto:وارث m(wāres)
Persian:وارث (fa)(vâres)
Piedmontese:erede m
Plautdietsch:Oaw f
Polish:spadkobierca (pl) m,spadkobierczyni (pl) f,dziedzic (pl) m,dziedziczka (pl) f,sukcesor (pl) m,sukcesorka f
Portuguese:herdeiro (pt) m
Romanian:moștenitor (ro) m,moștenitoare (ro) f
Russian:насле́дник (ru) m(naslédnik),насле́дница (ru) f(naslédnica)
Scottish Gaelic:oighre m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:на́следнӣк m,на́сљеднӣк m,на́следница f,на́сљедница f
Roman:následnīk (sh) m,násljednīk (sh) m,následnica f,násljednica (sh) f
Slovak:dedič m,dedička f
Slovene:dedič (sl) m,dedinja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian:derbnik m
Spanish:heredero (es) m,cabalero m(non-heir)
Swahili:mrithi (sw)
Swedish:arvtagare (sv) c,arvinge (sv) c,arvtagerska (sv) c(heiress)
Tagalog:tagapagmana
Tajik:ворис(voris)
Tatar:варис (tt)(waris)
Thai:ทายาท (th)(taa-yâat)
Turkish:vâris (tr),mirasçı (tr)
Ugaritic:𐎐𐎈𐎍(nḥl)
Ukrainian:спадкоє́мець m(spadkojémecʹ),спадкоє́миця f(spadkojémycja),наслі́дник m(naslídnyk),наслі́дниця f(naslídnycja)
Urdu:وارث m(vāris)
Uyghur:ۋارىس(waris)
Uzbek:voris (uz),merosxoʻr (uz)
Vietnamese:người thừa kế (vi)
Walloon:eritî (wa) m,eritresse f
Welsh:etifedd m,aer (cy) m,aerod m pl

one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office

Bulgarian:насле́дник (bg) m(naslédnik),насле́дничка f(naslédnička)
Catalan:hereu (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin:儲 /储 (zh)(chǔ, chú)
Czech:dědic (cs) m,dědička (cs) f
Dutch:opvolger (nl) m,opvolgster (nl) f
Finnish:perillinen (fi),vallanperijä,kruununperillinen (fi)
French:héritier (fr) m,héritière (fr) f
Galician:herdeiro (gl)
German:Thronerbe (de) m
Greek:κληρονόμος (el) m or f(klironómos)
Ancient:κληρόνομος m(klērónomos)
Hebrew:יוֹרֵשׁ (he) m(yorésh),יורשת f
Hindi:उत्तराधिकारी (hi) m(uttarādhikārī)
Hungarian:örökös (hu)
Irish:oidhre m,beangán m
Italian:erede (it) m
Japanese:継承者 (ja)(けいしょうしゃ, keishōsha)
Korean:계승자(繼承者)(gyeseungja)
Maori:kaiwhakakapi,whākapi
Polish:następca (pl) m,następczyni (pl) f,sukcesor (pl) m,sukcesorka f
Portuguese:herdeiro (pt) m
Romanian:moștenitor (ro) m,moștenitoare (ro) f
Russian:прее́мник (ru) m(prejémnik),прее́мница (ru) f(prejémnica)
Scottish Gaelic:oighre m
Slovak:dedič m,dedička f
Spanish:heredero (es) m
Swahili:mrithi (sw)
Swedish:arvinge (sv) c
Thai:รัชทายาท (th)(rát-chá-taa-yâat)
Welsh:aer (cy) m,aerod m pl

successor in a role

Czech:nástupce (cs) m,nástupkyně f
Dutch:opvolger (nl) m,opvolgster (nl) f
Finnish:seuraaja (fi),manttelinperijä (fi)
French:héritier (fr) m,héritière (fr) f,successeur (fr)
Galician:sucesor,herdeiro (gl)
Greek:διάδοχος (el) m or f(diádochos)
Hebrew:יוֹרֵשׁ (he) m(yorésh),יורשת f
Hindi:उत्तराधिकारी (hi) m(uttarādhikārī)
Hungarian:örökös (hu)
Italian:erede (it) m,successore (it) m
Japanese:継承者 (ja)(けいしょうしゃ, keishōsha)
Maori:kawa (mi),whākapi,kaiwhakakapi
Polish:następca (pl) m,następczyni (pl) f
Portuguese:sucessor (pt) m,herdeiro (pt) m
Romanian:succesor (ro) m,succesoare (ro) f,moștenitor (ro) m,moștenitoare (ro) f
Russian:прее́мник (ru) m(prejémnik),прее́мница (ru) f(prejémnica)
Slovak:nástupca m,nástupkyňa f
Spanish:sucesor (es) m
Thai:ผู้สืบทอด

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Italian:^{(pleaseverify)}ereditiero m,^(please verify)ereditiera (it) f
Telugu:^(please verify)వారసుడు (te) m(vārasuḍu),^(please verify)వారసురాలు f(vārasurālu)

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heir (third-person singular simple presentheirs,present participleheiring,simple past and past participleheired)

(ambitransitive) Toinherit.
- 1950, quoted inOur Garst family in America (page 27)
  […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shallheir equally, one as much as the other.