INHERITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inheritor mean? 

• INHERITOR (noun)
  The noun INHERITOR has 1 sense:

1. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

  Familiarity information: INHERITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHERITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

heir; heritor; inheritor

Hypernyms ("inheritor" is a kind of...):

receiver; recipient (a person who receives something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inheritor"):

heir apparent (an heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor)

heir-at-law (the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate)

heiress; inheritress; inheritrix (a female heir)

heir presumptive (a person who expects to inherit but whose right can be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative)

Derivation:

inherit (obtain from someone after their death)

 Context examples 

In which case Lord Godalming, though so dear a friend, would have had no claim in the world; and the inheritors, being remote, would not be likely to abandon their just rights, for sentimental reasons regarding an entire stranger.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)