heiress

English

Etymology

heir +‎ -ess.

Noun

heiress (plural heiresses)

1. A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
2. A woman who has received an inheritance.

Translations

a woman who stands to inherit

• Danish: arving (da) c
• Finnish: perijätär (fi)
• French: héritière (fr) f
• Georgian: მემკვიდრე (memḳvidre)
• German: Erbin (de) f
• Irish: banoidhre m
• Italian: ereditiera (it) f
• Japanese: 世継ぎ (よつぎ, yotsugi)
• Latin: hēres (la) m, f

• Portuguese: herdeira f
• Russian: насле́дница (ru) f (naslédnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-oighre f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́сљедница f, на́следница f

  Roman: násljednica (sh) f, následnica f

• Swedish: arvinge (sv) c
• Welsh: aeres f

Anagrams

• Heisers, reishes