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
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus
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
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Matthew Simpson
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
Margaret Cavendish
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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