Definitions for inheritor

inheritor in·her·i·tor

Spelling: [in-her-i-ter]
IPA: /ɪnˈhɛr ɪ tər/

Inheritor is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in inheritor (ehiinorrt).

Definitions for inheritor

noun

  1. a person who inherits; heir.

Origin of inheritor

First recorded in 1400-50, inheritor is from the late Middle English word enheritour, -er. See inherit, -or

Examples for inheritor

A man in prison, for instance, would not be the inheritor of anything.

It is as your son that I speak; it is as the inheritor of your name,—that name which Madeleine also bears.

On the day after the revelation, a thought came into the mind of the inheritor of the rubies.

And what is the democratic movement but the inheritor of Christianity?

He was an inheritor; and she had loved, not him, but his inheritance.

I was thus the inheritor of competence, and ought to be at this moment a gentleman.

If he was one, he was either the victim of misfortune or the inheritor of the misfortune of an ancestor.

The dying man was, after all, the inheritor of his ancestors' virtues and failings.

The first inheritor of these articles is the eldest son living 581 with the parents.

But what to the eyes of the world was this inheritor of a vaunted name?

Word Value for inheritor
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

Similar words for inheritor
Word of the day