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devisee
English
Etymology
devise +? -ee
Noun
devisee (plural devisees)
- (law) The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.
Synonyms
- legatee
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heir
English
Alternative forms
- heire (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin h?r?s.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /e?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, eyre, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)
Noun
heir (plural heirs, feminine heiress)
- Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
- One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
- A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
- "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"
Synonyms
- (one who inherits property): beneficiary (law), inheritor
- (one who inherits title): inheritor
- (successor in a role): See also Thesaurus:successor
Related terms
Translations
Verb
heir (third-person singular simple present heirs, present participle heiring, simple past and past participle heired)
- (transitive, intransitive) To inherit.
- 1950, quoted in Our Garst family in America (page 27)
- […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.
- 1950, quoted in Our Garst family in America (page 27)
See also
- legatee
- devisee
Anagrams
- Hire, ReHi, hire, rehi
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
heir n (plural heiren, diminutive heirtje n)
- (archaic) Alternative spelling of heer (“army”)
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman heir, aire (Old French eir), from Latin h?res (“heir”).
Noun
heir (plural heires)
- heir
Alternative forms
- heire, heier, eir, eire, eier, ei?er, hair, haire, air, aire, are, her, here, hier, heyr, heyre, heyer, eyr, eyre, eyer, eyur, hayr, hayre, ayr, ayre, ayer, ayere, ayar, hyer
- nayr, nayre, nayer, nere (by rebracketing of an heir)
Descendants
- English: heir
- Scots: heir
- ? Welsh: aer
References
- “heir, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
heir
- Alternative form of her (“hair”)
Etymology 3
Noun
heir
- Alternative form of here (“army”)
Etymology 4
Pronoun
heir
- Alternative form of hire (“her”)
Etymology 5
Noun
heir (plural heires or heiren)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 6
Adverb
heir
- Alternative form of her (“here”)
Etymology 7
Determiner
heir
- Alternative form of here (“their”)
Westrobothnian
Verb
hèir
- Alternative spelling of hiir.
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