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Inheritor

Inheritor \In*her"it*or\, n. One who inherits; an heir.

Born inheritors of the dignity.
--Milton.

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inheritor

n. 1 Someone who inherits something; an heir. 2 (context computing programming English) A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.

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inheritor

n. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another [syn: heir, heritor]

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Inheritor

Inheritor or Inheritors may refer to:

Film and stage
  • Inheritors (play), by Susan Glaspell
  • The Inheritors (1970 film) (original title Los herederos), a 1970 Argentine film
  • The Inheritors (1998 film) (original title Die Siebtelbauern), an Austrian-German film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
Television
  • "The Inheritors" (The Outer Limits)
  • "The Inheritors" (The Outer Limits 1995)
  • The Inheritors (TV series) or The Heirs, a 2013 South Korean television series
Novels and comics
  • Inheritor (novel), a 1996 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
  • Inheritors, by Brian Penton
  • The Inheritors (Conrad and Ford novel), by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford
  • The Inheritors (Robbins novel), by Harold Robbins
  • The Inheritors (Golding novel), by William Golding
  • Inheritors, a fictional group featured in the " Spider-Verse" storyline

Usage examples of "inheritor".

He or a colleague had accompanied the new Inheritor everywhere outside of workplace or home since Floyt had put on the belt.

Cup reached Floyt, all eyes were still with it as Dorraine was the only other Inheritor who had yet to drink.

Master Ghone absconded with a substantial quantity of harnessed energy, Inheritor Major.

Life suspension had been expressly forbidden, but the compulsion to deanimate was so powerful in the reception area that even the Inheritor Major himself was partially under its sway.

Most of the XT command crew were already reanimate, including Inheritor Nasst himself, who was cowering in a corner of the drive center, unwilling to make contact with any of the humans.

A group of spindly armed creatures suctioned to the ceiling said something to Inheritor Nasst that left the commander shivering in place.

Why had he spoken of that closely caged demon to her--the fear that came to him on dark nights that he was somehow masquerading as the model of a successful courtier, successful man, that all he really was was the lucky inheritor of generations of favour?

Eleven-year-old Lionardo was the remaining hope and satisfaction of the Buonarroti family, inheritor of the family name.

A name by which Karsa Orlong was now known, as if he alone was the inheritor of elder dominators in a young, harsh world.

Alex should know he is now the Earl of Fairhill and I am afraid the inheritor of a great number of debts.

At last the President, rising in his place, read the pronouncement of the Court: that Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be declared true inheritor of the duchy of Bercy, the nations represented here confirming him in his title.

The toast might be unpleasant, but all the Inheritors will have to drinkyou too, Hobart.

Like most Inheritors, Nasst refused to accept that operational duties attendant to even the most complex of transdimensional jaunts left ample room for stray thought.

Or the Anansi sects - inheritors of the long-forgotten Ashanti belief in the cunning of the spider, on which all progress in life was patterned.

His inheritors could not stand tall and straight in that cramped little world of levels.