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heiress

/air-is/US // ˈɛər ɪs //UK // (ˈɛərɪs) //

女继承人,继承人,女继承者,继承者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.

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Examples

  • The hotel heiress was photographed back in 2005 at her younger sister Nicky’s fashion show in Las Vegas.

  • To get to watch (his Heiress co-star) Jessica Chastain was a big inspiration.

  • DS: I was on stage doing The Heiress on Broadway, and that was a great way to turn 30.

  • Miss Berki said that the heiress later e-mailed to apologise for any misunderstanding.

  • After turning down Playboy, the acting heiress poses for her first cover shoot, which was captured by photographer Tony Duran.

  • Rivals tagged her an apparatchik, an heiress, handpicked by a mayor/mentor said to nickname her “ma petite Anne,” my little Anne.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

  • It had come into the family through the marriage of a former earl with the heiress of the great Chudleigh family.

  • Mrs. Barford, as a country heiress, had received a boarding-school education, and was very superior to Letty in every respect.

  • This is the time when he was in correspondence with Modeste Mignon and wished to espouse that rich heiress.

  • Janet Marward, heiress and titular baroness of Skryne in Meath, a manor worth some 200l.