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heir apparent collapse: an heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor

successor collapse: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone; a person who inherits some title or office; a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor"

heir collapse: a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

emir collapse: an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)

descendant collapse: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race; going or coming down

khan collapse: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries

fantail collapse: an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship

prince collapse: a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

buttocks collapse: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

copyhold collapse: a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services

bitter end collapse: (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt; the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be); "he was determined to fight to the bitter end"

orphan collapse: a young animal without a mother; the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column; a child who has lost both parents; someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision; deprived of parents by death or desertion; deprive of parents

offspring collapse: something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"; the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

king collapse: (chess) the weakest but the most important piece; one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king; a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward; a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom; a competitor who holds a preeminent position; United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968); United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925); United States woman tennis player (born in 1943); preeminence in a particular category or group or field; "the lion is the king of beasts"

rearward collapse: direction toward the rear; "his outfit marched to the rearward of the tank divisions"; directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement"

breech collapse: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded

aftermath collapse: the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

behind collapse: in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"; remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"; in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"; in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"; of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"

fag end collapse: the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope; the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"

posterior collapse: at or near the hind end in quadrupeds or toward the spine in primates

sequel collapse: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it; something that follows something else

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