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heritors

heritors is the plural of heritor.

Meaning of heritor

Noun

heritor (plural heritors)

  1. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
    • How comes it then that from such high estate
      We have thus fallen, save that Luxury
      With barren merchandise piles up the gate
      Where nobler thoughts and deeds should enter by:
      Else might we still be Milton's heritors.a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'Quantum Mutata', in Poems
  2. (Scots law) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
    • The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
      "To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 87

Questions about heritors

What is heritors the plural of?
Heritors is the plural of heritor.

Words near heritors in the dictionary

  1. heritages
  2. heritance
  3. heritances
  4. heritaunce
  5. heritor
  6. heritors
  7. heritour
  8. heritours
  9. heritress
  10. heritresses
  11. heritrices

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