heiress

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noun person who has possession of

noun. person who gains, benefits

noun. person who gains, benefits

noun. owner

noun. owner

noun. person who has possession of

noun. person who has possession of

1650s, from heir + -ess.

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

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

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

Heathcroft evidently had not told her of the Warwickshire heiress.

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

They know that his father is a millionaire, and his sweetheart an heiress in her own right.

She was an heiress in those days, I 've heard, and a beauty.

What right had this lazy Englishman to come in and marry its heiress?

How shocked Jay Gardiner would be when he heard that she was—an heiress!

Though two-and-twenty only, she stood there orphan, heiress, and widow.