From heir + -ess.
heiress (plural heiresses)
- A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 120:"Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?"
"Why, what heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present."
- A woman who has received an inheritance.
a woman who stands to inherit
- Arabic: وَارِثَة f (wāriṯa)
- Belarusian: насле́дніца f (nasljédnica)
- Bulgarian: насле́дничка f (naslédnička)
- Czech: dědička (cs) f
- Danish: arving (da) c
- Estonian: pärijanna, pärija (any gender)
- Finnish: perijätär (fi)
- French: héritière (fr) f, successeuse (fr) f, successrice (fr) f
- Georgian: მემკვიდრე (memḳvidre)
- German: Erbin (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉 f (arbjō)
- Irish: banoidhre m
- Italian: ereditiera (it) f
- Japanese: 世継ぎ (ja) (よつぎ, yotsugi)
- Latin: hēres (la) f
- Latvian: mantiniece f
- Lithuanian: paveldėtoja f
- Macedonian: наследничка f (naslednička)
- Polish: dziedzicka f, spadkobierczyni (pl) f, sukcesorka f
- Portuguese: herdeira f
- Romanian: moștenitoare (ro) f
- Russian: насле́дница (ru) f (naslédnica), прее́мница (ru) f (prejémnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: ban-oighre f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на́следница f, на́сљедница f
- Roman: následnica f, násljednica (sh) f
- Slovak: dedička f
- Slovene: dedinja f, naslednica f
- Spanish: heredera (es) f
- Swedish: arvinge (sv) c, arvtagerska (sv) c
- Ukrainian: наслі́дниця f (naslídnycja), спадкоє́миця f (spadkojémycja)
- Welsh: aeres f
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