HOW TO PRONOUNCE
heiress
/ˈɛɹəs/
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What does heiress mean?
noun
- A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- A woman who has received an inheritance.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛɹəs/
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He could construct a rope-ladder for an eloping heiress, or cord her boxes for a travelling maiden aunt.
His mother was Katarina Fürst, the daughter and heiress of a brewing business older and richer than Otto Ottenburg’s.
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The young heiress of seventeen in the Spectator has looked upon herself as marriageable "for the last six years."
And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way.
“Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress is a certain step to high preferment in the state.”