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heritress

heritress noun: a female heritor.

Noun

heritress (plural heritresses)

  1. A female heritor.
    • The mightiest monarch of his age, Sovereign of England—as his proud grandsire made his vaunt of yore—by right of the sword’s edge; Grand Duke of Normandy, by privilege of blood; and liege-lord of Guienne, by marriage with its powerful Heritress;1839 February, H[enry] W[illiam] Herbert, “The Saxon Prelate’s Doom”, in The Ladies’ Companion, a Monthly Magazine, Embracing Every Department of Literature, volume X, New York, N.Y.: William W....
    • One of those archdukes married the Heritress of the Netherlands.1880, E. Illingworth, “Pictures from History. The ‘Holy Office’ in the Netherlands.”, in The Primitive Methodist Magazine, for the Year of Our Lord 1880, volume III (of the new series); LXI (from the...
    Synonyms:
    heiress, heritrix

Synonyms of heritress

Forms of heritress

pluralheritresses

Origin of heritress

From heritor + -ess.

Questions about heritress

What does heritress mean?
Heritress means a female heritor.
What part of speech is heritress?
Heritress is a noun.
What is the plural of heritress?
The plural of heritress is heritresses.

Words near heritress in the dictionary

  1. heritaunce
  2. heritor
  3. heritors
  4. heritour
  5. heritours
  6. heritress
  7. heritresses
  8. heritrices
  9. heritrix
  10. heritrixes
  11. herkara

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