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inheritour

inheritour is the obsolete form of inheritor.

Meaning of inheritor

Noun

inheritor (plural inheritors)

  1. Someone who inherits something; an heir.
  2. A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.

Forms of inheritour

pluralinheritours

Questions about inheritour

What is inheritour the obsolete form of?
Inheritour is the obsolete form of inheritor.

Words near inheritour in the dictionary

  1. inheritocrat
  2. inheritocratic
  3. inheritocrats
  4. inheritor
  5. inheritors
  6. inheritour
  7. inheritours
  8. inheritress
  9. inheritresses
  10. inheritrice
  11. inheritrices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inheritour (page history and authors); inheritor (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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