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Inheritor

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who inherits something; an heir.
  2. 2
    a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another wordnet
  3. 3
    A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.

Etymology

From Middle English enheriter, enheritour. Displaced Old English ierfenuma. By surface analysis, inherit + -or.

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