heir apparent

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited. usually
    — […] for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000l. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.

词形变化

heirs apparent plural heir apparents plural

词汇关系

反义词
heir presumptive

词源

From Middle English heier apparaunt, a calque translation of Middle French héritier apparent, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
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