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Definition: Heir Apparent |
Heir ApparentNoun1. An heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: heir presumptive (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An Heir Apparent is a direct descendant of a monarch who is the heir to their throne, whose status as heir cannot be defeated by the birth of someone else who would then become the heir. An heir apparent differs from an Heir Presumptive in that, although an heir presumptive inherits the throne upon the death of the monarch, the right of the heir presumptive could be defeated by the birth of another person who would then be the heir apparent. For example, in Britain, if the monarch has a daughter and no sons, the daughter is the heiress presumptive, who becomes Queen if the monarch dies. But if the monarch later has a son, the son is then the heir apparent. In most monarchies, the monarch's oldest son, even if not the oldest child, becomes Heir Apparent. A growing number of monarchies however now allow the monarch's oldest child, irrespective of gender, to become Heir Apparent. Where that heir has died leaving children, their oldest child (or oldest son) becomes Heir Apparent.
It is an error to call the heir apparent simply the "heir." The heir is the person who currently owns the estate, having inherited it - in this case, the currently reigning monarch.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heir Apparent."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Possessor | Heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner, remainderman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heir Apparent |
| English words defined with "heir apparent": Atheling ♦ Crown Prince, crown princess ♦ Francis Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand ♦ Infante ♦ presumptive, Prince of Wales. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mr. Bryan claims to be "Heir apparent & parent." Apparently an impossibility. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Monaco | Prince Rainier III, the current ruler of Monaco, acceded to the throne following the death of his grandfather, Prince Louis II, in 1949. The current heir apparent, Prince Albert, was born in 1958. (references) |
Political Economy | Qatar | He has also appointed Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad, his third eldest son, as Heir Apparent and Deputy Emir and his brother Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al-Thani as Deputy Prime Minister. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heir apparent | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "heir apparent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | pravoplatný dìdic. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | héritier manifeste (apparent heir), héritier apparent (ostensible heir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | thronanwärter (claimant to the throne). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίδοξος (would-be), αναγκαίος διαδόχος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törvényes örökös. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eirhay apparentay бесспорный наследник, престолонаследник. (various references) heredero forzoso, Príncipe heredero (crown prince). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-p-p-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: appertain. | |
-4 letters: antirape, aperient, aphanite, apparent, earthier, earthpea, heartier, herniate, nephrite, perianth, peripter, preprint, pretrain, priapean, rapparee, reappear, retainer, tarpaper, terrapin, threaper, trappean, trephine. | |
-5 letters: apteria, arenite, earthen, epitaph, errhine, hairnet, hanaper, happier, haptene, hearten, heparin, heptane, herniae, hetaera, hetaira, inearth, nappier, narrate, neither, painter, panther, paperer, paphian, parapet, pareira, partier, partner, patinae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-p-p-r-r-t" | |
+3 letters: parthenocarpies. | |
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