heirs
Estate's future owners
Heirs are those who inherit—property, titles, or legacy—from someone who dies.
The term is legal but extends to anyone positioned to receive what another leaves behind: She was heir to a banking fortune, the heir to the throne.
Figuratively, heirs continue traditions or ideas: heirs to the civil rights movement.
An heir apparent has a secure claim; an heir presumptive could be displaced by a closer relative.
One's biological descendants
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- childrenYoung human beings
- successorsThose who follow after
- scionsHeirs or plant shoots
issue · lineage · bloodline · posterity · generation · seed · brood · firstborn
Those who receive advantages
- legateesRecipients of bequests
- deviseesRecipients of bequeathed property
- inheritorsThose who receive legacies
- assignsDesignates for a purpose
grantees · next of kin · intestate · testate · probate · executor · estate · will
Property and grounds
- legacyWhat's passed down
- bequestGift left by will
- patrimonyInherited estate or legacy
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
endowment · fortune · wealth · property · assets · heirloom · entailment · succession
progeny
One's biological descendants
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- childrenYoung human beings
- successorsThose who follow after
scions · issue · lineage · bloodline · posterity · generation · seed · brood · firstborn · secondborn
beneficiaries
Those who receive advantages
- legateesRecipients of bequests
- deviseesRecipients of bequeathed property
- inheritorsThose who receive legacies
assigns · grantees · next of kin · intestate · testate · probate · executor · estate · will · testament
estate
Property and grounds
birthright · endowment · fortune · wealth · property · assets · heirloom · entailment · succession · dower
ancestry
Family line of descent
dynasty · heritage · forebears · progenitors · ancestors · clan · tribe · kindred · house · line
- heirscoheirs, beneficiary, beneficiaries, successor, successors
- kinship lawconsanguinity, affinity, blood relation, blood relations, next of kin
- throne seekersusurpers, successors, pretenders, claimants, inheritors
- estate taxesestate tax, inheritance tax, death tax, death duty, death duties
- Hawaiian KingdomKamehameha, King Kamehameha, royal family, throne room, royal palaces
- intestacyintestacy, surviving spouse, descent, per stirpes, per capita
heirspredecessors
Those coming before another
ancestors · forebears · progenitors · forefathers · antecedents
heirstestators
People who make wills
benefactors · decedents · donors · grantors · disinherited
- heir apparentUnassailable next in line
- royal heirMonarchy's designated successor
- rightful heirPerson legally due inheritance
- lost heirUnlocated inheritance recipient
- male heirSon due inheritance
- legal heirOne lawfully entitled to inherit