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Noun: heir  ehr
  1. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
    - inheritor, heritor, distributee [US]
     
  2. A person who inherits some title or office
    - successor

Sounds like: air, ere, e'er, Ayr

Derived forms: heirs

Type of: issue, offspring, progeny, receiver, recipient

Encyclopedia: Heir

Nearest

heinousness
Heinrich Boell
Heinrich Engelhard Steinway
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Theodor Boell
Heinrich von Kleist
Heinz
heir
heir apparent
heir presumptive
heir-at-law
heiress
heirless
heirloom
heirship
Heisenberg
Heisenbug
heist