heiress

noun

Definition of heiressnext
as in successor

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Recent Examples of heiress The heiress was photographed with her stepmother and father at the Gucci fashion show in February 2013. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026 Kushner and Iger pivoting to Los Angeles reshapes the bidding and potentially clears the path for Walton Laurie, a Walmart heiress who brings deep pockets and a local flavor to the Vegas process. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Founded in 2017 by Alice Walton, a prominent philanthropist and heiress to the Walmart fortune, the Art Bridges Foundation’s mission is to expand access to American art across all regions of the United States. — News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 Alison Kennedy was the heiress of a wealthy Palo Alto family who would later adopt the alter ego Queen Mu and launch an influential cyberculture magazine called Mondo 2000, a futuristic mash-up of technology, psychedelics, and arts writing. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for heiress
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heiress
  1. successor
  2. beneficiary
  3. heir apparent
  4. devisee
  5. assignee
  6. heir
  7. grantee
Noun
  • McDermott’s successor, Joe Brady, takes on an immediate Super Bowl mandate for a franchise that’s been so close so often.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • New Athena will be the largest X-ray telescope ever built, a successor to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, still operational after launching in 1999.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of successor
Noun
  • Nonprofits need to remain willing to explain themselves to donors, beneficiaries, taxpayers, volunteers, communities and, yes, critics.
    — Brian Peckrill, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs and Jonathan Taylor were beneficiaries of that this season.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of beneficiary
Noun
  • Wide Receiver, Isaac TeSlaa, Detroit Lions Getty Images TeSlaa is the heir apparent to a starting position in the Lions wide receiver room.
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The current heir apparent is Prince George, full name George Alexander Louis.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of heir apparent
Noun
  • That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.
    — Dallas News, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Definition of devisee
Noun
  • Agents in Jira are generally available, allowing teams to assign work items to AI agents using the same interface as for human assignees, with full audit logging designed for compliance teams.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • To assign a task, simply tick a box, add a description, choose assignees, and input an optional due date.
    — Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of assignee
Noun
  • Sadek, a young Tunisian in Zurich, becomes the lover of a chocolate heir while the world’s cacao is dying.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • In those cases, a house becomes heirs’ property, a somewhat aloof legal term that can have devastating real-world impacts as a common driver of involuntary home loss, legal experts say.
    — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of heir
Noun
  • Michal Ruprecht spent a month reporting in Uganda as a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But once the extra antiviolence dollars were approved, Novelo said CDPH allocated more of the additional funds to the other grantee, Metropolitan Family Services.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of grantee

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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heiress. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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