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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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young
English
Etymology
From Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ?eong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?n??ós, from *h?yuh?en- (“young”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: y?ng, IPA(key): /j??/
- Rhymes: -??
Adjective
young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,[1]
- […] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,[1]
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:
- And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
- Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.
- 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
- The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
- 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
- (of a decade of life) Early.
- 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,[2]
- […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
- 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,
- Ephraim would be in his young thirties.
- 2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,[3]
- […] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.
- 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,[2]
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
- Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
Synonyms
- (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
- (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
- (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature
Antonyms
- (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
- (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
- (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
young (usually uncountable, plural young)
- People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
- The young of today are well-educated.
(Should we delete(+) this sense?)
- Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
- (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
- 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
- There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]
- 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
Translations
Related terms
- youth
Verb
young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
- (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
- (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
- (geology) To exhibit younging.
Middle English
Adjective
young
- Alternative form of yong
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