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• We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties.1960, The Bedside "Guardian", page 248. From the entry chemmy
• Heiress of infinite hope, and dowered with latent fitness to fulfil her part, now so suddenly fallen by the wayside!1903, Tom Collins [pseudonym; Joseph Furphy], “Wed. Jan. 9th. Trinidad Pad., per Sam Young. Conclave.”, in Such is Life: Being Certain…. From the entry fall by the wayside
• The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.2025 October 9, Parul Sehgal, “Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New…. From the entry lulu
• Consider that one in seven of the queens and heiresses apparent of England between William I of Normandy and Victoria of Hanover died in childbed.2022, J[ames] Bradford DeLong, “Notes”, in Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Basic…. From the entry heiress apparent
• Maddy was in no particular order an heiress, a celebrity, and a renowned kinkstress with enough BDSM accoutrements to open her own dungeon.2017, Thea de Salle, The Lady of Royale Street. From the entry kinkstress
• Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, "the type girls go for like catnip." He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress.2004 July 4, Barbara Hall, “Bookwise: Questions”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 05 Jul 2008. From the entry face that would stop a clock
• What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII. From the entry store
• Bill got to college only by dint of support from a female relative and heiress (a useful WASP resource) and by scholarships, then a symbol of WASP entitlement.1989 March 19, Elizabeth Janeway, “The Brotherhood of the WASP”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2022. From the entry wasp
• The largest private donor was apparently Eric Ertman, husband of Margaret Behn, the heiress daughter of the late hectomillionaire Sosthenes Behn, founder of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT).1983 December, “[Stirrings] Rare Chance for Truthful Writers”, in Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], editor…. From the entry hectomillionaire
• In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck. From the entry intriguing
• Some Northern Murdochs may be of the same stock of the Murthacs of Rothes, heirs of the Pollocks, and progenitors through incessive heiresses of the Watsons and Leslies of Rothes.1904, John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 124. From the entry incessive

Meaning of heiress

1. noun A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
2. noun A woman who has received an inheritance.

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How do you use heiress in a sentence?

Heiress is used as a noun. For example: “We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties.”

What is a short sentence with heiress?

“We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties.”

What does heiress mean?

Heiress means a woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.