heirship
heirship noun: the status of being heir to something or someone.
Noun
heirship (countable and uncountable, plural heirships)
- The status of being heir to something or someone
- He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858
- When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8
heirship meaning in Urdu and Kannada
heirship in Urdu
- heirship, succession
- استخلاف istixlāf
heirship in Kannada
- ಹಕ್ಕುದಾರಿ, ಹಕ್ಕುದಾರಿಕೆ
Forms of heirship
| plural | heirships |
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Origin of heirship
From heir + -ship.
Words formed from heirship
Questions about heirship
- What does heirship mean?
- Heirship means the status of being heir to something or someone.
- What is heirship in Urdu?
- Heirship in Urdu is استخلاف (istixlāf). See Heirship meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is heirship?
- Heirship is a noun.
- What is the plural of heirship?
- The plural of heirship is heirships.
Words near heirship in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heirship (page history and authors); استخلاف (Urdu) (page history and authors); heirship (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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