different between heir vs brood

English

Alternative forms

• heire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin h?r?s.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /e?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, eyre, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

heir (plural heirs, feminine heiress)

1. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.

3. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
   • "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"

Synonyms

• (one who inherits property): beneficiary (law), inheritor
• (one who inherits title): inheritor
• (successor in a role): See also Thesaurus:successor

Related terms

Translations

Verb

heir (third-person singular simple present heirs, present participle heiring, simple past and past participle heired)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To inherit.
   • 1950, quoted in Our Garst family in America (page 27)

     […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.

See also

• legatee
• devisee

Anagrams

• Hire, ReHi, hire, rehi

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

heir n (plural heiren, diminutive heirtje n)

1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of heer (“army”)

Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman heir, aire (Old French eir), from Latin h?res (“heir”).

Noun

heir (plural heires)

1. heir

Alternative forms

• heire, heier, eir, eire, eier, ei?er, hair, haire, air, aire, are, her, here, hier, heyr, heyre, heyer, eyr, eyre, eyer, eyur, hayr, hayre, ayr, ayre, ayer, ayere, ayar, hyer
• nayr, nayre, nayer, nere (by rebracketing of an heir)

Descendants

• English: heir
• Scots: heir
• ? Welsh: aer

References

• “heir, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

heir

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 3

Noun

heir

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

heir

1. Alternative form of hire (“her”)

Etymology 5

Noun

heir (plural heires or heiren)

1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 6

Adverb

heir

1. Alternative form of her (“here”)

Etymology 7

Determiner

heir

1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

Westrobothnian

Verb

hèir

1. Alternative spelling of hiir.

English

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?od, IPA^(key): /b?u?d/
• Homophones: brewed
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. Parentage.
7. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

Adjective

brood (not comparable)

1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

   a brood mare

Verb

brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

3. (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson:

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Translations

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??t/

Noun

brood (plural brode)

1. (countable) A loaf of bread.
2. (uncountable) Bread.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro?t/
• Hyphenation: brood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Noun

brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)

1. (uncountable) Bread.
2. (countable) A loaf of bread.
3. (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4. (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.

Derived terms

- bakery products

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brood

Anagrams

• boord

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brod, brode

Etymology

From Old English br?d.

Adjective

brood

1. broad

Descendants

• English: broad
• Scots: braid