NOUN
- an heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor
How To Use heir apparent In A Sentence
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- Their increase in urgency after the interval only emphasised their apparent lack of motivation beforehand. Times, Sunday Times
- Their apparent preponderance may be due to the fact that they have been the most commonly used corticosteroids.
- Whether this "miss" is due to son Todd (Anne's heir apparent to the Pern empire) is difficult to say. Dragon's Kin
- Their apparent grief turned to crazy laughter in a minute.
- But their apparent inability to work with some charities is staggering. Times, Sunday Times
- Not long ago, I took a political blogger named billmon to task for insulting conservative bloggers he didn't like by using the word 'homoerotic' to describe their apparent fixation with America's heroic soldiery. Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
- Nash was an impact player at tailback who was expected to be the team's heir apparent to take over for MU career leading rusher Zack Abron, who was lost to graduation after 2003. USATODAY.com
- Ivester, 50, had been considered heir apparent to replace Goizueta, who died Saturday from complications related to lung cancer.
- Heir apparent to Chinese-Filipino taipan John Gokongwei and the driving force behind the rapid expansion of Cebu Pacific, Lance Gokongwei is causing a big splash in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia as he secures more and more routes for the low-cost carrier. The Southeast Asia Power List
