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heiress

[ air-is ]

noun

  1. a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.


heiress

/ ˈɛərɪs /

noun

  1. a woman who inherits or expects to inherit great wealth
  2. property law a female heir


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Gender Note

See -ess.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of heiress1

First recorded in 1650–60; heir + -ess

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Example Sentences

To get to watch (his Heiress co-star) Jessica Chastain was a big inspiration.

DS: I was on stage doing The Heiress on Broadway, and that was a great way to turn 30.

Miss Berki said that the heiress later e-mailed to apologise for any misunderstanding.

After turning down Playboy, the acting heiress poses for her first cover shoot, which was captured by photographer Tony Duran.

Rivals tagged her an apparatchik, an heiress, handpicked by a mayor/mentor said to nickname her “ma petite Anne,” my little Anne.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

It had come into the family through the marriage of a former earl with the heiress of the great Chudleigh family.

Mrs. Barford, as a country heiress, had received a boarding-school education, and was very superior to Letty in every respect.

This is the time when he was in correspondence with Modeste Mignon and wished to espouse that rich heiress.

Janet Marward, heiress and titular baroness of Skryne in Meath, a manor worth some 200l.

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