heiress
Use Heiress in a sentence
ɪs noun
a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a woman who inherits or expects to inherit great wealth |
| 2. | property law a female heir |
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Heiress
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example sentences
The newspapers referred to her as the heiress to a chain of discount stores.
She's not an actress or a singer or a misbehaving heiress to a hotel fortune.
The idea was to take so little that the heiress wouldn't notice-and so they could come back again.
As one blond celebrity heiress and embodiment of emptiness might say, nothing is hot.
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