heiress

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
    — "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."
  2. A woman who has received an inheritance.

词形变化

heiresses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
coheiress heiress apparent heiressdom heiresshood heiress presumptive millionheiress

词源

Etymology tree
English heir
Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor.
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English heiress
From heir + -ess.
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