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heir·ess
eI rihs
复数:heiresses
词根:heir
n.heir [法] 继承人;后嗣;嗣子
noun
a female heir, esp. one who is entitled to or has inherited a large fortune.
1650年代,来自 heir + -ess。指女性继承人,尤其是继承或有望继承大量财富的女性。
heir >entry 1 + -ess
The first known use of heiress was in 1607
heliocentricadjective
referred to or measured from the sun's center or appearing as if seen from it
having or relating to the sun as a center
helicopternoun
an aircraft that is supported in the air by propellers revolving on a vertical axis
helicopternoun
an aircraft that is supported in the air by propellers revolving on a vertical axis
helixnoun
a curve that is formed by a point rotating around a straight line and moving forward in a direction parallel to that line compare double helix
held
heistnoun
armed robberyalso: theft
heirnoun
a person who inherits or has the right to inherit property
a person who has legal claim to a title or a throne when the person holding it dies
heirloomnoun
a piece of personal property handed down from generation to generation
heirnoun
a person who inherits or has the right to inherit property
a person who has legal claim to a title or a throne when the person holding it dies
heiressnoun
a girl or woman who is an heir
1 Grace Windsor Wexler, her chin tilted in the regal pose of an heiress, gave him her full attention.
2 The manor was entailed on Lucy, the only heiress alive.
庄园由唯一在世的女继承人露西继承.
3 He recalled Christie’s 2004 auction for tobacco heiress Doris Duke’s wine collection which sold for an astonishing $3.7 million, much higher than he had anticipated.
4 “It was a lightweight thing, an heiress who ran away, you know?”
5 The hotel chain heiress who draws photographers wherever she goes will have her own team on the world motorcycling championship circuit.
6 I’m a massive fan of Sally’s and this one sounds particularly intriguing – it’s about the Regency landowner Anne Lister who sets her sights on marrying a wealthy heiress.
7 Her parents were Edward F. Hutton, co-founder of the stock brokerage, and breakfast foods heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who married into additional fortunes and became a dominant Washington socialite of her era.
8 Better yet, take the marble double staircase, a showpiece by renowned architect Stanford White, where newspaper heiress Eleanor “Cissy” Patterson and countless Washington debutantes floated up to the ballroom.
9 Ditto the glass tubes that emitted little puffs of scent in the space devoted to Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, which attempts to recreate her own…um…body odor as unearthed from her clothes — say, a Schiaparelli cocktail dress covered in garden blooms — and environments.
10 Having inherited a small fortune, the long-cloistered heiress hungers for friendship and love.
11 Two hundred years later, a spoiled heiress sees herself “as the family intellectual; she took Book-of-the-Month Club selections and often read at least the first chapters.”
12 We have just hear of his marriage to an heiress.
我们刚刚听说他与一位女继承人结了婚.
13 Katharine Hepburn is an heiress with a pet leopard named Baby.
14 Among the many misconceptions the Hilton heiress, ur-social media influencer and businesswoman is hoping will be cleared by the new biographical documentary "This Is Paris," that may be the foremost.
15 I heard one story about the son of a New York heiress who was snatched by his father and taken somewhere in the Middle East.
我听说过一个故事,一位纽约女继承人的前夫抢走了她的儿子,并把他藏在了中东某个地方。
16 Those attracted to the series’ narrative risks will like the complicated setup of Season 2: After jumping into another dimension, Marling’s character finds herself in San Francisco as a wealthy heiress.
17 Phone tapping, dastardly political plots involving millionaire heiresses and illicit love affairs are not the kind of thing one expects to see in EastEnders.
18 Created by Ann Friedman of Bethesda, Md., a real estate heiress and teacher who is married to New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman, Planet Word opens amid a pandemic that has decimated tourism in Washington.
19 It is reported that the heiress is looking to begin reproducing as soon as she can.
有消息称,这位豪门女星日前是“生子”心切.
20 A German insurer, Allianz SE, has sued the celebrity socialite and heiress to the Hilton Hotels fortune, saying she has ignored several attempts to recover the borrowed jewels.
1 女继承人