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| heir [ er ] (plural heirs) |
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1. legal inheritor of something: somebody who holds the right to receive a property, position, or title of somebody else when that person dies
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2. recipient of tradition: an inheritor of something such as a tradition, problem, or characteristic
 Our generation is the unfortunate heir to decades of pollution.
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| [14th century. Via Old French (h)eir< Latin heres] |
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| heir·less adjective |
| heir·ship noun |
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