HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: NOUN
- Someone who will inherit only if no better choice for an heir is born.
- See heir apparent.
- An heir who stands to inherit the estate, title, or office of an intestate ancestor, but whose claim can be defeated if a relative who is closer to the ancestor is born prior to the ancestor's death.
- A person who expects to inherit but whose right can be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative
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HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: VERB
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- To dominate.
- To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
- Get on the back of
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To step over; to stride over or across.
- To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over.
- To step or stride across.
- To dominate by position; tower over.
- To sit or stand on with the legs astride; straddle.
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- To step over; cross by stepping.
- To straddle over; mount astride of; stretch the legs or corresponding parts across so as to embrace: as, to bestride a horse; spectacles bestriding the nose.
- Get up on the back of
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: RELATED WORDS
- Succession, Peacock throne, Kingship, Dynastic, King, Prince consort, Princeling, Monarch, Figurehead, Prince regent, Coronation, Heir, Successor, Throne, Heir apparent
- Limn, Dominate, Transfigure, Genuflect, Lionise, Totter, Transfix, Conquer, Straddle, Mount up, Climb on, Jump on, Hop on, Get on, Mount
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Succession, Peacock throne, Kingship, Dynastic, King, Prince consort, Princeling, Monarch, Figurehead, Prince regent, Coronation, Heir, Successor, Throne, Heir apparent
- Cavort, Enfold, Ascend, Limn, Dominate, Transfigure, Genuflect, Lionise, Totter, Transfix, Conquer, Straddle, Mount up, Get on, Mount
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- He is the son of Eliwood, the main character of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, and heir presumptive of Pherae.
- Frenchman, that he is not heir presumptive to another crown, and that he has previously taken the civic oath.
- Prince Albert became King George VI and the young Princess Elizabeth became heir presumptive to the throne.
- Known as "The Brat" in the Heraldic Circle, the Heir-presumptive lives up to her nickname.
- Roger was made lieutenant of Ireland and was declared heir presumptive to the Crown.
- To open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second only.
- He may still bestride the world like a colossus, but the world is shifting under his feet.
- When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.
- And yet it also attempts to bestride the earth with the iron boot of collectivist totalitarianism.
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE vs BESTRIDE: QUESTIONS
- Who is the heir presumptive to the title of Lord Shaughnessy?
- Who is the current heir presumptive to the Baronetcy of Waterlow?
- Why was Ashoka not the heir presumptive to the throne?
- How did Franz Ferdinand become heir-presumptive to the Austrian throne?
- How did Franz Ferdinand become heir presumptive to the throne?
- Is Princess Caroline of France an heir presumptive?
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