Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhahtava) heire
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
- One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
- A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
Esimerkit
- I am my father's heir and only son.
- And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
- And I his heir in misery alone.
- "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[...]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins."
- India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | heirs |