: a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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Texas is also home to the richest woman in America, Walmart heiress Alice Walton ($106 billion).
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Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Row has earned industry acclaim, and backing from Chanel owners the Wertheimers as well as L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, positioning them firmly among elite American designers.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Frankel's book posits that Short and Leila Walsh, a Kansas City heiress who was murdered in 1941, were killed by the same man.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
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Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Row has earned industry acclaim, and backing from Chanel owners the Wertheimers as well as L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, positioning them firmly among elite American designers.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Frankel's book posits that Short and Leila Walsh, a Kansas City heiress who was murdered in 1941, were killed by the same man.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heiress. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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heiress
noun
heir·ess
ˈar-əs 
ˈer-
: a girl or woman who is an heir
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