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• As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat.From the entry whipping boy
• Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.From the entry partition
• The provisory clause effectively excluded his otherwise logical heirs from his main inheritance.From the entry provisory
• I married into money, since my wife was the heir of a large estate.From the entry marry into
• The crown descends to the heir of the previous monarch.From the entry descend
• The Queen’s younger brother was the heir presumptive to the throne, until she gave birth to her first child.From the entry presumptive
• All the jewelry went to her heirs.From the entry go to
• Queen Anne Boleyn brought forth daughters but no male heir.From the entry bring forth
• When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.From the entry pass
• Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.From the entry vest
• If none is appointed, the founder (or his heirs) is the visitor by operation of law.2012, Jill E. Martin, Modern Equity, nineteenth edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, →ISBN, page 496. From the entry eleemosynary corporation
• The will might stipulate, for example, that the heir receive the home, free and clear, Ms.2011 November 17, Vickie Elmer, “Inheriting a Home, and a Loan”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jun 2014. From the entry free and clear
• Our rightful heir for once behaved more like a ruler than I ever would have imagined.2001 September 27, Raymond F. Aubé, chapter 31, in Across Troubled Waters, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 625. From the entry manly
• Here come the Cryptolibertarians, the wirehead heirs of Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau.1997 September 8, Josh McHugh, “Politics for the really cool”, in Forbes, page 172. From the entry cryptolibertarian
• Under present social arrangments accumulated property is handed on to heirs.1922, J. G. H. Barry, Our Lady Saint Mary. From the entry arrangment
• He is heir to some property and prefers to loaf at saloons until his ship comes in.1915, Humane Advocate, page 877. From the entry one's ship comes in
• Any Protestant who became a Catholic forfeited his whole hereditable estate to the nearest Protestant heir.1913, “Penal Laws”, in Catholic Encyclopedia. From the entry hereditable
• Lien Chan had a PhD from the University of Chicago and was the heir to a vast family fortune.2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 266. From the entry xian
• Yet Sayyid Akbar was a weak ruler and produced no capable heirs, at least in the opinion of the Akhund.2007, Sana Haroon, Frontier of Faith, Columbia University Press, page 41. From the entry akhund
• The young Bates embarks on a Frodoesque mission to reclaim the kingdom of Middlefinger, of which he is the rightful heir.2003 December 1, “Names & Faces”, in The Washington Post. From the entry Frodoesque
• These stereotypes of indigenous peoples implied obvious roles for the associated Europeans—heirs to the Dying, bleaching agents to the Whitening.1997, James Belich, “Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand”, in The New Zealand Journal of History, volume 31, number 1, Auckland…. From the entry archetype
• In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father's wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30. From the entry uncircumcised
• Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafu was the regent's daughter.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 1995, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry justice
• The maternal heirs of decedent derive their relationship from decedent's grandparents, and thus fall in the grandparent parentela.1980, In re Gregory’s Estate, 44 Colo. App. 538, 540, 616 P.2d 186, 188 (Colorado Court of Appeals). From the entry parentela
• And the prospect of genteel notoriety for their unborn heirs is the source of the Mob's drive for WASPization.1971, Chicago Journalism Review, volume 4, page 14. From the entry WASPization
• Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper.2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry lay claim
• You need at least three heirs.2024 June 4, Peachy Keenan, “My College Commencement Address (If I Gave One)”, in The American Mind, archived from the original on 17 Sep…. From the entry babymaxx
• All are men, thanks to titles that can be passed only to male heirs, all are white and most are over the age of 70.2024 July 20, Harriet Sherwood, “The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hereditary peer
• LeBron James, heir apparent to MJ’s throne, seems on paper like a dream trade—he stole plenty of laughs in Trainwreck a few summers ago.2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club. From the entry heir apparent
• Now that the emperor had died without a male heir and without having arranged the election of a successor, all bets were off.2021 [2017], Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage, “The War of Succession”, in Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in…. From the entry Holy Roman Empress
• In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it.2020, Arunima Ray, “Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations”, in Goutam…. From the entry cisheterosexual
• A very true-bred heir, my darling!2007, Philippa Gregory, Wideacre: A Novel, →ISBN, page 255. From the entry true-bred
• The same Yids who villainly destroyed His Majesty the Emperor, together with the Empress, their innocent daughters, and the adolescent heir to the throne.2007, N. N. Shneidman, Double Vision: The Jew in Post-Soviet Russian Literature (1991-2006), Mosaic Press, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry villainly

Meaning of heir

1. noun Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
2. noun One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
3. noun A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

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How do you use heir in a sentence?

Heir is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.”

What is a short sentence with heir?

“A very true-bred heir, my darling!”

What does heir mean?

Heir means someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.