: a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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This includes Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of France, an heiress to the L’Oreal fortune who is worth $86 billion, by far the largest fortune to derive from a pure beauty company.
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Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress.
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—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
Just a block from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was built in the 1910s for an heiress to the retail titan Frank Woolworth.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress.
7.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
Just a block from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was built in the 1910s for an heiress to the retail titan Frank Woolworth.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heiress. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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heiress
noun
heir·ess
ˈar-əs 
ˈer-
: a girl or woman who is an heir
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