1. people who receive money, property, or other assets from someone who has died
Usage: plural of inheritor
2. people who receive or take over something from predecessors, such as traditions, responsibilities, or situations
Usage: figurative use

Examples

• The inheritors of the estate met with the lawyer to discuss the will.
• As the sole inheritors, the children divided their grandmother’s jewelry equally.
• The new government officials were inheritors of a difficult economic situation.
• Young artists today are inheritors of centuries of creative tradition.
• The inheritors of the family business decided to modernize their operations.
• We are all inheritors of the environmental problems created by previous generations.