[
US
/ˈɛɹ/
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[ UK /ˈeə/ ]
[ UK /ˈeə/ ]
NOUN
- a person who inherits some title or office
- a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
How To Use heir In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
- Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
- But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- A lot of the wrinklies, in fact, come along with holes in their shirts and jerseys.
- This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
- They need access to the right help so they can rebuild their lives. Times, Sunday Times
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.