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inheritress

inheritress noun: a female inheritor; an heiress.

Noun

inheritress (plural inheritresses)

  1. A female inheritor; an heiress.
    • By their decease I became the lawfull Inheritress of their House and Fortune.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia

Forms of inheritress

pluralinheritresses

Origin of inheritress

From inheritor + -ess.

Words formed from inheritress

  • coinheritress

Questions about inheritress

What does inheritress mean?
Inheritress means a female inheritor; an heiress.
What part of speech is inheritress?
Inheritress is a noun.
What is the plural of inheritress?
The plural of inheritress is inheritresses.

Words near inheritress in the dictionary

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

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