Synonyms of the word

heir

• n. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
• n. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
• n. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

heritor

• n. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
• n. (Scotland) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.

inheritor

• n. Someone who inherits something; an heir.
• n. (computing, programming) A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

progeny

• n. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants.
• n. (countable) A result of a creative effort.

receiver

• n. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.

recipient

• n. One who receives.
• n. (medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
• n. (chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

successor

• n. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
• n. The next heir in order or succession.
• n. A person who inherits a title or office.
• n. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.