inheritor
[in-her-i-ter]
- a person who inherits; heir.
Origin of inheritor
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Contemporary Examples
Much of this shift reflects the social phenomena of inheritors in general.
We are the inheritors of the wealthiest, most powerful nation in human history.
We are the inheritors of an intellectual and material wealth and tradition that far exceeds anything we could build ourselves.
The Palestinian Christians who are there are the inheritors of the early church.
But April 19th has deeper significance for members of the militia movement and their inheritors throughout the United States.
Historical Examples
I wonder if the ant tribe may not be the future inheritors of the earth.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and GreenJerome K. Jerome
We are the true ancients, the inheritors of all the wisdom and all the heroism of the past.
Education and the Higher LifeJ. L. Spalding
Still we are not looked upon as actual, but only contingent, inheritors of the title.
Peter SimpleFrederick Marryat
To-day history has made us Germans the inheritors of the Napoleonic idea.
Gems (?) of German ThoughtVarious
We, the latest age, are the inheritors of all the foregoing ages.
The Complete Essays of C. D. WarnerCharles Dudley Warner