heiress

[ air-is ]
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noun
  1. a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.

Origin of heiress

1
First recorded in 1650–60; heir + -ess

usage note For heiress

See -ess.

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How to use heiress in a sentence

  • Many of the British officers in America, with worldly wisdom, were already seeking alliances with our Colonial heiresses.

    In Hostile Red | Joseph Altsheler
  • They say titled foreigners line up in front of the Lenox postoffice to look for heiresses.

  • Much may be forgiven her, for lovely Marion Arleigh, one of the richest heiresses in England, was an orphan.

    Marion Arleigh's Penance | Charlotte M. Braeme

British Dictionary definitions for heiress

heiress

/ (ˈɛərɪs) /


noun
  1. a woman who inherits or expects to inherit great wealth

  2. property law a female heir

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