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inheritor

[ US /ˌɪnˈhɛɹətɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɪnhˈɛɹɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

How To Use inheritor In A Sentence

  • Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform. Comments for Azure Flame
  • Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but khan of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.
  • We are the reluctant inheritors of a tradition that once corralled hundreds of thousands of young men into a place so that they might selflessly clamber out of trench lines to certain death. Michael Vlahos: Chilean Transcendence
  • The bagpipes are warpipes and those who thrill to them today are the inheritors of a warrior tradition.
  • Unlike the property listed in your will, the property in a trust is not probated, so it passes directly to your inheritors.
  • In England, the official emphasis on regnal and legal continuity played an important part in the process by which the Normans came to perceive themselves as inheritors of the historical traditions of an ancient kingdom.
  • It's too early to tell whether she'll be the inheritor of her father's mantle, but if this film is an indication, her career may rocket like his did.
  • This was a preelection budget for beneficiaries, an autumn statement for aspiring inheritors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yes, I thought; it was as Achilles 'heir that he must have seen himself; inheritor of the ancient laws, which say a man lives by his pride and shall defend it to the death: Harmodios son of Proxenos son of Harmodios, and so on back to some well-greaved Achaian at Troy. The Praise Singer
  • What was familiar here was only the inheritor of what she had known, divided from her by a generation. AN OLDER WOMAN
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