"heiress" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɛəˈɹɛs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heiress.wav Forms: heiresses [plural]
Etymology: From heir + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|heir|ess<id:female>}} heir + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} heiress (plural heiresses)
  1. A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit. Categories (topical): Female people Translations (a woman who stands to inherit): وَارِثَة (wāriṯa) [feminine] (Arabic), насле́дніца (nasljédnica) [feminine] (Belarusian), насле́дничка (naslédnička) [feminine] (Bulgarian), dědička [feminine] (Czech), arving [common-gender] (Danish), pärijanna (Estonian), pärija (english: any gender) (Estonian), perijätär (Finnish), héritière [feminine] (French), successeuse [feminine] (French), successrice [feminine] (French), მემკვიდრე (memḳvidre) (Georgian), Erbin [feminine] (German), 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉 (arbjō) [feminine] (Gothic), banoidhre [masculine] (Irish), ereditiera [feminine] (Italian), 世継ぎ (yotsugi) (alt: よつぎ) (Japanese), hēres [feminine] (Latin), mantiniece [feminine] (Latvian), paveldėtoja [feminine] (Lithuanian), наследничка (naslednička) [feminine] (Macedonian), dziedzicka [feminine] (Polish), spadkobierczyni [feminine] (Polish), sukcesorka [feminine] (Polish), herdeira [feminine] (Portuguese), moștenitoare [feminine] (Romanian), насле́дница (naslédnica) [feminine] (Russian), прее́мница (prejémnica) [feminine] (Russian), ban-oighre [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), на́следница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), на́сљедница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), následnica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), násljednica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), dedička [feminine] (Slovak), dedinja [feminine] (Slovene), naslednica [feminine] (Slovene), heredera [feminine] (Spanish), arvinge [common-gender] (Swedish), arvtagerska [common-gender] (Swedish), наслі́дниця (naslídnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), спадкоє́миця (spadkojémycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), aeres [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. A woman who has received an inheritance. Categories (topical): Female people
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: heiress apparent, heiress presumptive

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?\"\n \"Why, what heiress have you picked up?\" asked his sister. \"I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present.\"",
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          "word": "მემკვიდრე"
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          "word": "moștenitoare"
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          "roman": "prejémnica",
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          "word": "прее́мница"
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          "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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          "word": "ban-oighre"
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          "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "на́следница"
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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          "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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          "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 120:",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "arving"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "héritière"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "successrice"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "memḳvidre",
      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
      "word": "მემკვიდრე"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "Erbin"
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      "roman": "arbjō",
      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "banoidhre"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "ereditiera"
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      "alt": "よつぎ",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
      "word": "世継ぎ"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "mantiniece"
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      "word": "paveldėtoja"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "наследничка"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "dziedzicka"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "word": "spadkobierczyni"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "sukcesorka"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "herdeira"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "moștenitoare"
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      "word": "насле́дница"
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      "word": "ban-oighre"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "word": "на́следница"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "на́сљедница"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "následnica"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "dedička"
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      "word": "dedinja"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "word": "arvtagerska"
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spadkojémycja",
      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "спадкоє́миця"
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      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "a woman who stands to inherit",
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