Timeline for A word to describe someone who inherited something
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 23:24 | vote | accept | Ivan Smirnov | ||
| Oct 7, 2020 at 23:03 | answer | added | Laurel♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:41 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Your future colleague is the inheritor of your project. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:40 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | A person who benefits from a deceased person's will is sometimes called a legatee. However I would call Bob the inheritor of the house. To call him the 'heir' of the house would be wrong. He is an heir of the dead person. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | Ivan Smirnov | @DhanishthaGhosh Perfectly both. I thought that the same word can be used in both cases (considering the tone of the second usage) but I admit that there might be better alternatives. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:26 | comment | added | Ivan Smirnov | Thanks for pointing out an; turns out that I pronounced the silent H. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:09 | comment | added | Dhanishtha Ghosh | By the way, do you want to know a word for the Bob and Alice story-line or do you want for that of the addressal of your colleague? | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 21:06 | comment | added | Dhanishtha Ghosh | macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/… According to the definition on this site, it is the correct choice to use heir. However I must point out, it should be an heir, not a heir. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 20:55 | history | asked | Ivan Smirnov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |