heiress
Daughter with prospects
An heiress is a woman who stands to inherit or has inherited substantial wealth or property.
The term typically implies considerable fortune—you wouldn't call someone inheriting a modest sum an heiress.
The heiress to the hotel fortune suggests glamour and privilege.
The word has an old-fashioned ring; heir now often covers both sexes.
Gift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
- estateProperty and grounds
- trust fundAssets held for another
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
patrimony · probate · executor · testator · entailment · will · fortune · endowment
Woman of ducal rank
- countessFeminine noble rank
- baronessFemale holder of barony
- viscountessNobleman's wife or widow
- marquessNobleman below duke
debutante · socialite · peerage · nobility · gentry · blueblood · patrician · lady
Following in order
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- royaltyPayment for usage rights
- kingdomMonarch's ruled territory
empire · bloodline · house · crown · reign · sovereignty · princess · queen
bequest
Gift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
- estateProperty and grounds
- trust fundAssets held for another
beneficiary · patrimony · probate · executor · testator · entailment · will · fortune · endowment · codicil
duchess
Woman of ducal rank
- countessFeminine noble rank
- baronessFemale holder of barony
- viscountessNobleman's wife or widow
marquess · debutante · socialite · peerage · nobility · gentry · blueblood · patrician · lady · title
succession
Following in order
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- royaltyPayment for usage rights
kingdom · empire · bloodline · house · crown · reign · sovereignty · princess · queen · regent
fortune
Wealth or destiny
opulence · affluence · luxury · holdings · investments · portfolio · capital · dividends · assets · property
elite
Superior select group
advantage · access · prestige · influence · status · gilded · sheltered · boarding school · finishing school · society
- heirsheirs, inheritor, coheirs, beneficiary, beneficiaries
- royal successionthrone, succession, line of succession, order of succession, succession line
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- Affluencewealth, wealthy, affluence, prestige, elite
- British aristocracyduke, duchess, earl, countess, baron
heiressself-made woman
Woman who achieved independently
self-made millionaire · entrepreneur · bootstrapper · self-starter · tycoon
heiressbenefactor
One who gives aid
testator · testatrix · bequeather · benefactress · predecessor
heiresspauper
Person in extreme poverty
beggar · have-not · indigent · poor relation · charity case