inheritor

Noun

Meaning

One who inherits; an heir.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heir heritor dauphin assignee family child receiver replacement seed offspring recipient descendant buyer follower progeny
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Antonyms

herald messenger daddy father prognostic ancient
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Hypernyms

receiver recipient

Hyponyms

heiress inheritrix inheritress heir apparent heir presumptive heir at law

Related terms

inheritrix inheritress

Phrases with the word

designated inheritor heiress inheritor

Examples

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people. James A. Michener

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Alan Paton

... it is certainly wrong to condemn poor old Homo Sapiens as the only species to kill his own kind, the only inheritor of the mark of Cain, and similar melodramatic charges. Richard Dawkins

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Noam Chomsky

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins. Jasmine Guinness

I do not want to be the inheritor of so many misfortunes. I do not want to continue as a root and as a tomb, as a solitary tunnel, as a cellar full of corpses, stiff with cold, dying with pain. Pablo Neruda

Close letter words and terms

inheritee inheriter inheriting inheritour inheritress inheritrix