heiress
/ɛəˈɹɛs/
heiress noun: a woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
Noun
heiress (plural heiresses)
- A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- "Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?"
"Why, what heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 120
- "Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?"
- A woman who has received an inheritance.
heiress meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
heiress in Tamil
- மரபுரிமையள்
heiress in Urdu
- وارثہ
heiress in Malayalam
- അവകാശിനി, വലിയ സ്വത്തിന് അവകാശിനി
heiress in Kannada
- ಮರುಪಡೆಗಿತ್ತಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- heiress in Arabic
- وَارِثَة wāriṯa
Examples of heiress in a sentence
- We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties.
- Heiress of infinite hope, and dowered with latent fitness to fulfil her part, now so suddenly fallen by the wayside!
- The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.
Forms of heiress
| plural | heiresses |
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Origin of heiress
From heir + -ess.
Words formed from heiress
Questions about heiress
- What does heiress mean?
- Heiress means a woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- What is heiress in Tamil?
- Heiress in Tamil is மரபுரிமையள். See Heiress meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is heiress?
- Heiress is a noun.
- How do you pronounce heiress?
- Heiress is pronounced /ɛəˈɹɛs/.
- What is the plural of heiress?
- The plural of heiress is heiresses.
Words near heiress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heiress (page history and authors); heiress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heiress (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heiress (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heiress (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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