heirとは

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /ɛəɹ/
  • 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)
  • 異形同音異義語: air, ere, Ayr

名詞

heir (複数形 heirs)

1. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I am my father's heir and only son.

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.

2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
3. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     And I his heir in misery alone.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"

   • 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:

     India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.

関連する語

動詞

heir (三人称単数 現在形 heirs, 現在分詞 heiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 heired)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To inherit.
   • Quoted in 1950, Our Garst family in America (page 27)

     […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.

参考

• legatee
• devisee

アナグラム

• Hire, ReHi, hire, rehi