: a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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The beach read queen notches her fifth consecutive GCA win with Great Big Beautiful Life, in which a sunny aspiring writer and a cranky literary icon compete to write the memoir of a shady octogenarian heiress.
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
His assignment ultimately is to track down a Wisconsin cheese heiress whose mobster family’s business somehow has massive geopolitical importance.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Known simply as Le Bal, the exclusive, invite-only debutante ball can only be described as the Met Gala but for teenagers, scions, heiresses and royals, according to Vogue magazine, which had a firsthand inside look at the big night.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
The success of the sale hinged on three Gustav Klimts, including Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, a six-foot-tall painting of a pale, wide-eyed heiress in a Chinese imperial robe, estimated at $150 million.
—Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
His assignment ultimately is to track down a Wisconsin cheese heiress whose mobster family’s business somehow has massive geopolitical importance.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Known simply as Le Bal, the exclusive, invite-only debutante ball can only be described as the Met Gala but for teenagers, scions, heiresses and royals, according to Vogue magazine, which had a firsthand inside look at the big night.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
The success of the sale hinged on three Gustav Klimts, including Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, a six-foot-tall painting of a pale, wide-eyed heiress in a Chinese imperial robe, estimated at $150 million.
—Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heiress. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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heiress
noun
heir·ess
ˈar-əs 
ˈer-
: a girl or woman who is an heir
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