inheritor
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- n a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
- Second, Jacob Zuma will be a controversial inheritor of Mandela's legacy.
- The tycoon had changed his will in 1968 after discovering that his wife was allegedly having an affair, and had named his father as the inheritor.
- These minor differences aside, Tyson, 47, is the undisputed inheritor of his late predecessor's mantle as the great explainer of all things cosmic.