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[ US /ˈɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /ˈe‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who inherits some title or office
  2. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

How To Use heir In A Sentence

  • Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
  • Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
  • Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
  • This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
  • Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
  • A lot of the wrinklies, in fact, come along with holes in their shirts and jerseys.
  • By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
  • In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
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