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/ˈɛɚ/ · noun
Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another..
My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
I am my father's heir and only son.
As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
In ancient Greece, the Spartans developed rules that consolidated property into a narrow class of heirs, while the growing population of people left behind were reclassified as hypomeiones—inferiors.
As the heir to the British throne, the Prince of Wales is a very public figure.
Now, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, William, 40, is the Prince of Wales and the heir to the British throne.
Vittorio Emanuele, the Italian throne's last heir, was apprehended in 1978 after a teen died from a gunshot on an exclusive island.
Use heir when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heir means Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another..
Common synonyms include beneficiary, inheritor, aftercomer, heir.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
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