Word.ws English Dictionary

heiresses presumptive

heiresses presumptive is the plural of heiress presumptive.

Meaning of heiress presumptive

Noun

heiress presumptive (plural heiresses presumptive)

  1. A female heir presumptive.
    • Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread among his own people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the...[1876?], Emily Sarah Holt, “The Invincible Armada”, in Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada (English Life in the Olden Time), new edition, London: John F. Shaw and Co. […], →OCLC, page 81

Questions about heiresses presumptive

What is heiresses presumptive the plural of?
Heiresses presumptive is the plural of heiress presumptive.

Words near heiresses presumptive in the dictionary

  1. heiress-apparent
  2. heiress-presumptive
  3. heiressdom
  4. heiresses
  5. heiresses apparent
  6. heiresses presumptive
  7. heiresses-apparent
  8. heiresses-presumptive
  9. heiresshood
  10. heirhead
  11. heirheads

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heiresses presumptive (page history and authors); heiress presumptive (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heiresses presumptive.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heiresses_presumptive. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.