heritor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: her=i=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

heritor, n. [Cf. LL. herator, fr. L. heres an heir.].

 A proprietor or landholder in a parish.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

heritor, n. (esp. in Scottish Law) a person who inherits.

Etymology

ME f. AF heriter, OF heritier (as HEREDITARY), assim. to words in -OR(1)

ROGET THESAURUS

heritor

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.