The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
Source: tatoeba (18519)
Heir
//ɛɚ//
Synonyms for "heir" (82 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (41)
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
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1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
227 translations across 84 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- trashëgimtar noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κληρόνομος noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- κληρόνομος noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Arabic
4 entries- وارس noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- ورتة noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- وَارِث noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- وَارِثَة noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Aragonese
1 entries- hereu noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Armenian
1 entries- ժառանգ noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Asturian
1 entries- herederu noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- varis noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Basque
3 entries- jaraunsle noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- oinorde noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- oinordeko noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Belarusian
2 entries- насле́днік noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- насле́дніца noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Bulgarian
4 entries- насле́дник noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- насле́дник noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- насле́дничка noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- насле́дничка noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Catalan
3 entries- hereter noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- hereu noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- hereu noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Cebuano
1 entries- manununod noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 儲 /储 noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- 繼承人 /继承人 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- 繼承者 /继承者 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Czech
4 entries- dědic noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dědic noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- dědička noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dědička noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Danish
1 entries- arving noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Dutch
4 entries- erfgenaam noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- erfgename noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- opvolger noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- opvolger noun (successor in a role)
Egyptian
1 entries- E9-w-a-w-A1 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Esperanto
1 entries- heredanto noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Estonian
1 entries- pärija noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Extremaduran
1 entries- hereeru noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Finnish
4 entries- kruununperillinen noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- manttelinperijä noun (successor in a role)
- perijä noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- perillinen noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
French
4 entries- héritier noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- héritier noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- héritier noun (successor in a role)
- héritière noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Galician
4 entries- herdeiro noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- herdeiro noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- herdeiro noun (successor in a role)
- heree noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Georgian
1 entries- მემკვიდრე noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
German
3 entries- Erbe noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- Erbin noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- Thronerbe noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐌰 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Greek
3 entries- διάδοχος noun (successor in a role)
- κληρονόμος noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- κληρονόμος noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Hebrew
4 entries- יוֹרֵשׁ noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- יוֹרֵשׁ noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- יוֹרֵשׁ noun (successor in a role)
- יורשת noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Higaonon
1 entries- manonod noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Hindi
3 entries- उत्तराधिकारी noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- उत्तराधिकारी noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- उत्तराधिकारी noun (successor in a role)
Hungarian
3 entries- örökös noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- örökös noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- örökös noun (successor in a role)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Erreb noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Icelandic
1 entries- erfingi noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Indonesian
1 entries- pewaris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Irish
4 entries- beangán noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- beangán noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- oidhre noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- oidhre noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Italian
4 entries- erede noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- erede noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- erede noun (successor in a role)
- ereditiera noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Japanese
4 entries- 相続人 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- 継承者 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- 継承者 noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- 継承者 noun (successor in a role)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- erderu noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Kashubian
1 entries- dzedzéc noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Kazakh
1 entries- мұрагер noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Khmer
1 entries- ទាយាទ noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Korean
3 entries- 계승자 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- 계승자 noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- 상속인 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- мураскор noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- мурасчы noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Lao
1 entries- ທາຍາດ noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Latin
1 entries- hērēs noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Latvian
2 entries- mantiniece noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- mantinieks noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Lithuanian
3 entries- paveldėtoja noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- paveldėtojas noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- įpėdinis noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- derbnik noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Macedonian
2 entries- наследник noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- наследничка noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Malay
2 entries- pewaris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- waris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Māori
4 entries- kairīwhi noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- kaiwhakakapi noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- kaiwhakakapi noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- kaiwhakakapi noun (successor in a role)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- mîratgir noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- wêris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- arving noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Occitan
1 entries- eiretièr noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Old Czech
1 entries- erb noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Old English
1 entries- ierfa noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Pashto
1 entries- وارث noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Persian
1 entries- وارث noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Piedmontese
1 entries- erede noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Oaw noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Polish
4 entries- dziedzic noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dziedziczka noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- następca noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- następca noun (successor in a role)
Portuguese
4 entries- herdeiro noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- herdeiro noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- herdeiro noun (successor in a role)
- sucessor noun (successor in a role)
Romanian
4 entries- moștenitoare noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- moștenitoare noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- moștenitoare noun (successor in a role)
- moștenitor noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Russian
4 entries- насле́дник noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- насле́дница noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- прее́мник noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- прее́мник noun (successor in a role)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- oighre noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- oighre noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- následnica noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- následnīk noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- násljednica noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- násljednīk noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Slovak
4 entries- dedič noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dedič noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- dedička noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dedička noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Slovene
2 entries- dedinja noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- dedič noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Spanish
4 entries- cabalero noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- heredero noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- heredero noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- sucesor noun (successor in a role)
Swahili
2 entries- mrithi noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- mrithi noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Swedish
4 entries- arvinge noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- arvinge noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- arvtagare noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- arvtagerska noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Tagalog
1 entries- tagapagmana noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Tajik
1 entries- ворис noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Tatar
1 entries- варис noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Thai
3 entries- ทายาท noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- ผู้สืบทอด noun (successor in a role)
- รัชทายาท noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Turkish
2 entries- mirasçı noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- vâris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎐𐎈𐎍 noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Ukrainian
4 entries- наслі́дник noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- наслі́дниця noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- спадкоє́мець noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- спадкоє́миця noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Urdu
1 entries- وارث noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Uyghur
1 entries- ۋارىس noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Uzbek
2 entries- merosxoʻr noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- voris noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người thừa kế noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Walloon
2 entries- eritresse noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- eritî noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
Welsh
4 entries- aer noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- aer noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
- aerod noun (one who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another)
- aerod noun (one who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Which prince is the legitimate heir to the throne?
Source: tatoeba (37965)
"Air" and "heir" are homophones.
Source: tatoeba (73723)
The king's eldest son is the heir to the throne.
Source: tatoeba (241365)
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