[
US
/ˌɪnˈhɛɹətɝ/
]
[ UK /ɪnhˈɛɹɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɪnhˈɛɹɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
How To Use inheritor In A Sentence
- In it, the Shia imams who followed him after the massacre in Karbala instruct their followers to begin the address by calling Hussein the "inheritor" and "heir" of Adam, New Statesman
- As the elite, Akhund is not only the inheritor and disseminator of Islam, but also the elucidator and defender of Sharia and Islam religious doctrine.
- His advocacy for the Iraq war was only the latest of Hitchens's positions that many on the left found uncomfortable, and led to a chill in his relations with Gore Vidal, who had once nominated him a "successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino". Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
- Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions. Inception
- In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate.
- So we are, in fact, the inheritors and recipients of all of those interesting evolutionary experiments.
- David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish.
- They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism.
- As the elite, Akhund is not only the inheritor and disseminator of Islam, but also the elucidator and defender of Sharia and Islam religious doctrine.
- The granddaughter and last direct descendant of the late Greek tycoon is also the inadvertent inheritor of a tragic family history.