Definitions for heiress

heiress heir·ess

Spelling: [air-is]
IPA: /ˈɛər ɪs/

Heiress is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in heiress (eehirss).

Definitions for heiress

noun

  1. a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.

Origin of heiress

First recorded in 1650-60; heir + -ess

Examples for heiress

DS: I was on stage doing The heiress on Broadway, and that was a great way to turn 30.

Miss Berki said that the heiress later e-mailed to apologise for any misunderstanding.

In 1874 Hay marries a Chicago heiress worth millions of dollars.

Heathcroft evidently had not told her of the Warwickshire heiress.

Rivals tagged her an apparatchik, an heiress, handpicked by a mayor/mentor said to nickname her “ma petite Anne,” my little Anne.

It is not often that the heiress of a million or thereabouts is quite so readily disposed of.

A man sent me this morning a copy of verses to the heiress of Bannow.

To get to watch (his heiress co-star) Jessica Chastain was a big inspiration.

I s'pose he wasn't going to take any chances of losing his heiress.

My brother is a rich man, and my daughter may be his heiress.

Word Value for heiress
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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