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heir/eə $ er/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : Latin heres]
1. the person who has the legal right to receive the property or title of another person when they die
heir to
　 ▪ John was the sole heir to a vast estate.
heir to the throne (=the person who will become king or queen)

2. the person who will take over a position or job after you, or who does things or thinks in a similar way to you:
　 ▪ Jonson was his political heir as leader of the Nationalist Party.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heir apparent
rightful heir
▪ the rightful heir to the throne
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ However, if a man dies without direct male heirs, his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
▪ Du Pont is a direct heir to the du Pont fortune.
▪ When the Earl of Surrey died in 1347 he left no direct heir.
legal
▪ The adoption contract might contain a proviso that if a natural son was born he would take precedence as the legal heir.
▪ Now Jeanne Deschamps, Suzanne's sister and sole legal heir, is demanding that the painting be restored to the family.
▪ The boy's his legal heir.
▪ The financial aspirations of the legal heirs, however, frustrated any hope of compromise.
legitimate
▪ No, she may give me her money and my legitimate heir, and that is all.
▪ In all three cases the Church seems to have been trying to prevent lords from siting legitimate heirs.
▪ And so at last, though not happily nor of one mind, Lachlan was named as the legitimate heir of Duart.
▪ She is usually noble-born, and crucially, she alone is allowed to bear legitimate heirs.
male
▪ Where wealth is divided among both male and female heirs, the pattern of marriage is relevant.
▪ That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
▪ The succession law favouring the male heir was changed in May 1990 to give equal succession rights to both sexes.
▪ However, if a man dies without direct male heirs, his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
▪ Late in life, King Robert had still fathered no male heir.
▪ Unless this occurred, the land was divided equally amongst all the male heirs, reducing the size of Catholic plots.
▪ This was most likely to happen if a lordship was left without an adult male heir.
rightful
▪ Wasn't he the rightful heir?
▪ Why, for instance, does Dahlia continue to control the purse strings after Ella is revealed as the rightful heir?
▪ The princes had obviously refused to select their prince as Phoenix King although he was obviously the rightful heir to Aenarion.
VERB
die
▪ However, if a man dies without direct male heirs, his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
leave
▪ They can sell their timeshares, or rent them out, or even leave them to their heirs in their wills.
▪ William died in November 1581, leaving his son Maximilian heir to his property in Halling.
▪ Sigmar left no heir and his passing must have caused some apprehension amongst the people of the Empire.
▪ When the Earl of Surrey died in 1347 he left no direct heir.
▪ He left a son and heir, John, aged twenty-two, and a widow, who died in 1349.
marry
▪ His duty was to marry and produce an heir to the throne.
produce
▪ With equal grace and dispatch she produced the son and heir the Shah craved.
▪ That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
▪ At all times the social function of marriage has been to produce heirs and this their marriage had failed to do.
▪ His duty was to marry and produce an heir to the throne.
▪ Beatrice died soon after and without producing an heir.
publish
▪ The flat tax is the biggest plank in publishing heir Steve Forbes' platform.
▪ But so far, media buyers in California see no sign of the publishing heir.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Henry died a year ago, and his heirs sold the ranch.
▪ Reagan's political heirs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And this was especially true for the neoconservatives who considered themselves the heirs of an abandoned tradition of postwar liberalism.
▪ In all three cases the Church seems to have been trying to prevent lords from siting legitimate heirs.
▪ In this sense, Mr Major is child and heir of Thatcherism, smile and smile as he may.
▪ Lieutenant Denholm is the heir to an earldom.
▪ Richard was now heir to the throne of the Angevin Empire.
▪ They want to repeal a tax the heirs of millionaires pay.
▪ Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?