NOUN
- an heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor
How To Use heir apparent In A Sentence
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- Does their apparent lack of progress speak to their shortcomings as candidates?
- Their apparent grief turned to crazy laughter in a minute.
- Ivester, 50, had been considered heir apparent to replace Goizueta, who died Saturday from complications related to lung cancer.
- Their apparent grief turned to crazy laughter in a minute.
- Observers say that the terror inspired by the veterans and their apparent immunity from the law has been seized on by disgruntled workers to settle scores with employers.
- Alexander I.. Lebed took center stage to criticize the ailing leader and cast himself as heir apparent.
- I suspect, however, that many involved in this debate have very different numbers needed to test in mind, hence their apparently irreconcilable differences.
- At 27, Suchard is the heir apparent to Uri Geller, the self-described Israeli "mystifier" who gained fame bending spoons seemingly only with the power of his mind. Ellen Sterling: The Power of the Mind: Lior Suchard Is a Living, Breathing & Entertaining Example
- Indeed, his daughters have drawn ire for their apparently lavish lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
