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heiress-apparent

heiress-apparent is the alternative form of heiress apparent.

Meaning of heiress apparent

Noun

heiress apparent (plural heiresses apparent)

  1. A female heir apparent.
    • “Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found...1851, [Rosina] Bulwer Lytton, chapter IV, in Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. A Tale of Real Life., volume III, London: W[illiam] Shoberl, […], pages 140–141

Forms of heiress-apparent

pluralheiresses-apparent

Questions about heiress-apparent

What is heiress-apparent the alternative form of?
Heiress-apparent is the alternative form of heiress apparent.

Words near heiress-apparent in the dictionary

  1. heired
  2. heires
  3. heiress
  4. heiress apparent
  5. heiress presumptive
  6. heiress-apparent
  7. heiress-presumptive
  8. heiressdom
  9. heiresses
  10. heiresses apparent
  11. heiresses presumptive

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