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heirdoms

heirdoms is the plural of heirdom.

Meaning of heirdom

Noun

heirdom (countable and uncountable, plural heirdoms)

  1. An inheritance or succession.
    • The fever’d diadem on my brow
      I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
      Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
      Rome to the Caesar — this to me?1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

Questions about heirdoms

What is heirdoms the plural of?
Heirdoms is the plural of heirdom.

Words near heirdoms in the dictionary

  1. heir presumptive
  2. heir-at-law
  3. heir-loom
  4. heir-looms
  5. heirdom
  6. heirdoms
  7. heire
  8. heired
  9. heires
  10. heiress
  11. heiress apparent

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