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heyre

heyre is the obsolete form of heir.

Meaning of heir

Noun

heir (plural heirs)

  1. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
    • My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
  2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
    • As the heir to the British throne, the Prince of Wales is a very public figure.
    Synonyms:
    inheritor
  3. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
    • And I his heir in misery alone.1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

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Forms of heyre

pluralheyres

Questions about heyre

What is heyre the obsolete form of?
Heyre is the obsolete form of heir.

Words near heyre in the dictionary

  1. heyokha
  2. heyokhas
  3. heyr
  4. heyrat
  5. heyrats
  6. heyre
  7. heyre-loome
  8. heyre-loomes
  9. heyres
  10. Heyrod
  11. heyrovskyite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heyre (page history and authors); heir (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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