heir Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
heritor; inheritor.
noun a person who inherits some title or office
successor.

OE. heir, eir, hair, OF. heir, eir, F. hoir, L. heres; of uncertain origin. Cf. Hereditary, Heritage.

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.
One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
And I his heir in misery alone. Pope.

To inherit; to succeed to. R.
One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden.