Definition of Heir

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Definition of Heir

Heir

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.

One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.

To inherit; to succeed to.

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Heir Quotations

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
Jane Grey

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
J. L. Austin

Heir Translations

heir in German is Erbe
Heir in Italian is erede
heir in Norwegian is arving
heir in Spanish is heredero
heir in Swedish is arvinge

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