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• heres
  heres

  noun

  an heir.
• here's
  here's

  contraction of here is.

heres

¹ American  

[heer-eez] / ˈhɪər iz /

Or haeres

noun

Civil Law.

• heredes
  plural

1. an heir.

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here's ² American  

[heerz] / hɪərz /

1. contraction of here is.

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heres British  

/ ˈhɪəriːz /

noun

1. civil law an heir

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Usage

See contraction.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• heredes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of heres

From the Latin word hērēs heir

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

heres here's heredes

This album is very so-so or, in Morissette-ian terms, from her song “The Edge of Evolution,” the album has, “The highs and lows and the heres and theres.”

From Time ● Aug. 28, 2012

I like practical examples so heres one you might relate to.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2012

Stephen Fuchs heres the link for “why does the sun really shine?” the only smooth and sexy science song ive ever heard Margaret Davis ‎”NaCl” by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2012

Bertjansch asked before telling of his surprise at opening a, "Pig's face baguette at a motorway cafe near Malaga... oh, hello, heres Porky Pig whiskers and all."

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2011

They have maintained that "finites" are forever "finites," and that there are no bridges that carry us from our finite "nows" and "heres" to an infinite Reality.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones

And here’s another surprise: Growth is one key distinction, however.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The BBC's Zoe Kleinman was the first British journalist to hail a self-driving Uber in London - here's how the ride went.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

So here’s what my colleagues suggest to keep things light for the rest of the evening:

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

What if the producer on your next record says, “Hey, here’s a little shortcut we can use”? We already use little shortcuts — Auto-Tune is one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

I answered everything and acted all excited, but here’s a hypothesis: Adults don’t want to know how we’re feeling.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Heirs are called sui heredes, that is, heirs of themselves or of their own property, as is explained by Gaius.

From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Here then was a voluntary transfer of more or less property at pleasure to persons freely chosen, who were not necessarily universal successors, if they ever were, and who nevertheless took under the name heredes.

From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

To return to Bracton, it must be understood that the description of assigns as quasi heredes is not accidental.

From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

At about the same time the Earl of Chester and Huntingdon gave a charter to Chester forbidding trade in the town “nisi ipsi cives mei Cestrie et eorum heredes vel per eorum gratum.”

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert