inheritress
She receives legacy
An inheritress is a female who inherits or is entitled to inherit property, titles, or other assets.
The word is old-fashioned; inheritor now serves for any gender.
The young inheritress came into her fortune at twenty-one.
Wealth or destiny
- estateProperty and grounds
- assetsOwned items of value
- patrimonyInherited estate or legacy
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
trust fund · dowry · holdings · riches · annuity · bequest · capital · property
Property and grounds
- probateWill validation proceedings
- bequestGift left by will
- deviseeBeneficiary of bequeathed property
- executorAppointed estate manager
trustee · entitlement · descendant · beneficiary · decedent · will · testament · codicil
Family line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- genealogyStudy of family descent
pedigree · birthright · primogeniture · entailment · succession · descendants · progeny · forebears
Formally introduced young woman
- socialiteProminent figure in fashionable circles
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- noblewomanFemale of high birth
- countessFeminine noble rank
duchess · peeress · gentry · dowager · dame · marriage · matchmaking · suitor
What's passed down
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- historyRecord of past events
- keepsakeItem preserved for sentiment
- mementoToken of recollection
ancestral · passed down · family legacy · continuity · stewardship · preservation · custodian · generational
fortune
Wealth or destiny
endowment · trust fund · dowry · holdings · riches · annuity · bequest · capital · property · lands
estate
Property and grounds
executor · trustee · entitlement · descendant · beneficiary · decedent · will · testament · codicil · intestate
ancestry
Family line of descent
genealogy · pedigree · birthright · primogeniture · entailment · succession · descendants · progeny · forebears · matrilineal
debutante
Formally introduced young woman
- socialiteProminent figure in fashionable circles
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- noblewomanFemale of high birth
countess · duchess · peeress · gentry · dowager · dame · marriage · matchmaking · suitor · finishing school
legacy
What's passed down
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- historyRecord of past events
- keepsakeItem preserved for sentiment
memento · ancestral · passed down · family legacy · continuity · stewardship · preservation · custodian · generational
inheritresstestator
One who makes bequests
testatrix · bequeather · decedent · benefactor · donor
inheritressself-made woman
Woman who achieved independently
entrepreneur · earner · self-made millionaire · businesswoman · breadwinner
heritage, heir, inherit, inheritance, inherited, heirloom, heredity, heiress, hereditary