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heiress
[air-is]
noun
a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.
heiress
/ ˈɛəɪ /
noun
a woman who inherits or expects to inherit great wealth
property law a female heir
Gender Note
Example Sentences
The 101-year-old home, designed for an oil heiress, has been restored and will soon reopen to the public after being closed for more than two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
And while she, as heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, was not a “robber baron” in the traditional sense of the word, that’s the vibe he likes.
Surely if a fabulously wealthy heiress like Tanya died under mysterious circumstances after traveling aboard a yacht where numerous people were shot and killed, it would attract media attention and probably spawn a million podcasts.
The reference hardly seems accidental: Netflix was criticized for paying fake heiress Anna Sorokin a hefty fee for the rights to adapt her life story into “Inventing Anna.”
The newspaper heiress, who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and later joined them as “Tania,” was the recipient of two presidential actions.
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