Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An heir; one who inherits or may inherit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who inherits; an heir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
inherits something; anheir .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions.
Inception 2010
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Greenaway's work were now repeated by the latest form of three-colour process, she would be less an "inheritor" -- in this respect -- "of unfulfilled renown."
De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880
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Assets inherited from a spouse are not taxed as long as the inheritor is a U.S. citizen.
Forbes.com: News Deborah L. Jacobs 2011
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Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform.
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In it, the Shia imams who followed him after the massacre in Karbala instruct their followers to begin the address by calling Hussein the "inheritor" and "heir" of Adam,
New Statesman Sayed Mahdi Al-Modaressi 2010
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In it, the Shia imams who followed him after the massacre in Karbala instruct their followers to begin the address by calling Hussein the "inheritor" and "heir" of Adam,
New Statesman 2010
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Gore Vidal once named Hitchens as his inheritor or dauphin.
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His advocacy for the Iraq war was only the latest of Hitchens's positions that many on the left found uncomfortable, and led to a chill in his relations with Gore Vidal, who had once nominated him a "successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino".
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But if taxes are to be based on Mankiw's proposal that those "who contribute more to society deserve a higher income that reflects those greater contributions," then inheritors who have contributed nothing themselves should pay substantially higher rates full disclosure: I am myself an inheritor.
Eric Schoenberg: Zombie Economics and Just Deserts: Why the Right Is Winning the Economic Debate Eric Schoenberg 2011
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The United States, the inheritor of Britain's Empire, is struggling to continue financing its vast sphere of influence.
Eric Margolis: The Road to War in Asia Eric Margolis 2011
oroboros commented on the word inheritor
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April 22, 2008