What is another word for inheritors?

Pronunciation: [ɪnhˈɛɹɪtəz] (IPA)

Inheritors generally refers to individuals who have received a legacy or property through a will or legal procedure. Synonyms for inheritors include heirs, beneficiaries, successors, legatees, devisees, receivers, assignees, and recipients. Heirs refer to one who inherits property from their parents or ancestors, whereas beneficiaries are individuals who profit or receive any kind of benefits from a trust, will, or insurance policy. A successor is someone who takes over a position, ownership, or title after someone else. Legatees are people named in a will to receive specific property, and devisees are named in a will to receive real estate. Receivers, assignees, and recipients are persons who receive something, such as money, in their possession or control.

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What are the opposite words for inheritors?

Antonyms for the word "inheritors" could include "disinherited," "excluded," "dispossessed," "deprived," or "stripped." These words all describe individuals who do not have any claim or right to inheritance, whether due to legal reasons, familial disputes, or other factors. Other antonyms could include "self-made," "independent," "autonomous," "sovereign," or "emancipated." These words describe individuals who have achieved success and wealth through their own efforts and do not rely on inheritance or familial connections to maintain their status. Overall, antonyms for "inheritors" encompass a broad range of individuals who have not received or cannot claim, a financial or material inheritance.

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Usage examples for Inheritors

Thus Terence may, more even than Catullus or Lucan, be ranked among 'the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Both these young men were inheritors of remarkable ability-the one being a son of the distinguished historian, and the other a son of an accomplished divine-both, too, were themselves highly educated, and one at least was possessed of the highest genius.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
That touch creates us,-then we begin to be,-thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell

Famous quotes with Inheritors

  • As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.
    Michael Oakeshott
  • It's all you deserve. You've got the cash, what the hell do you care? You've got nothing to lose. You are inheritors of a great tradition. My country right or wrong! You do what you're told to do. You don't answer back the way Tommy Jeff did or Ben Frank or Georgie Washing. I'll say you don't. You're civilized. You let your betters tell you where you get off. Go ahead —
    William Carlos Williams
  • Though Bharathi died so young, he cannot be reckoned with Chatterton and Keats among the inheritors of "unfulfilled renown". His was a name to conjure with, at any rate in South India, while he was still alive.
    Subramanya Bharathi

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