: a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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Lady Margaret Hoby was a landowner and heiress who, during the early 1600s, was running her estate and the family business in Yorkshire in the frequent absence of her husband on parish and judicial business.
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Phillipa Gregory, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Huppert delivers a commanding performance as Marianne Farrère, a wealthy heiress whose extravagant gifts to a much younger artist ignite public outrage.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
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september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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Phillipa Gregory, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Huppert delivers a commanding performance as Marianne Farrère, a wealthy heiress whose extravagant gifts to a much younger artist ignite public outrage.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
—Audiofile Magazine
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heiress
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heiress. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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heiress
noun
heir·ess
ˈar-əs 
ˈer-
: a girl or woman who is an heir
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