Heir
One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
To inherit; to succeed to.
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Heir Quotations
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Matthew Simpson
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
Margaret Cavendish
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
Jane Grey
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
J. L. Austin
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
Princess Margaret
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Frederick Henry Hedge
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Francis Herbert Hedge
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Heir Translations
heir in German is Erbe
Heir in Italian is erede
heir in Norwegian is arving
heir in Spanish is heredero
heir in Swedish is arvinge
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