heiress
noun
1 heiress
A female heir.
synonyms: inheritress, inheritrix.
Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Roget 779:
possessor,
holder;
occupant,
occupier;
tenant;
person in possession,
man in possession
etc.
777;
renter,
lodger,
lessee,
underlessee†;
zemindar†,
ryot†;
tenant on sufferance,
tenant at will,
tenant from year to year,
tenant for years,
tenant for life.
owner;
proprietor,
proprietress,
proprietary;
impropriator†,
master,
mistress,
lord.
land holder,
land owner,
landlord,
land lady,
slumlord;
lord of the manor,
lord paramount;
heritor,
laird,
vavasour†,
landed gentry,
mesne lord†;
planter.
cestui-que-trust [Fr.],
beneficiary,
mortgagor.
grantee,
feoffee†,
releasee [Law],
relessee†,
devisee;
legatee,
legatary†.
trustee;
holder of the legal estate
&c.;
mortgagee.
right owner,
rightful owner.
[Future possessor]
heir presumptive,
heir apparent;
heiress;
inheritor,
inheritress,
inheritrix;
reversioner†,
remainderman†.
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Dutch: erfgename
Polish: sukcesorka, spadkobierczyni
Moby thesaurus: apparent heir, beneficiary heir, child, coparcener, daughter, descendant, fideicommissary heir, fiduciary heir, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heir, heir apparent, heir expectant, heir general, heir in tail, heir of entail, heir of inventory, heir of line, heir portioner, heir presumptive, heir whatsoever, heritor, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, joint heir, next in line, offspring, presumptive heir, remainderman, reversioner, scion, son, son and heir, sonny, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, successor ... show more.
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