Usually means: Next in line for inheritance.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word heir apparent:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. heir apparent: Merriam-Webster
  2. heir apparent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heir apparent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heir apparent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heir apparent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heir-Apparent, Heir-apparent, heir-apparent, heir apparent: Wordnik
  7. heir apparent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heir apparent: Wiktionary
  9. heir apparent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. heir apparent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. heir apparent: Dictionary.com
  12. Heir Apparent (band), Heir Apparent (novel), Heir Apparent, Heir-apparent, Heir apparent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. heir apparent: Rhymezone
  14. heir-apparent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Heir - apparent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. heir apparent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. heir apparent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. heir apparent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. heir apparent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. heir apparent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. heir apparent: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Heir-apparent, heir apparent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heir-apparent, heir apparent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heir apparent: Genealogy Glossary

(Note: See heir_apparents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heir apparent)

noun:  (usually monarchy) Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited.

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