Word Meanings - LEGATEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEGATEE)

• Inheritor
• Heir
• successor
• devisee
• legatee

Related words: (words related to LEGATEE)

• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• LEGATEE
  One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
• SUCCESSOR
  One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. Chaucer. A gift to a corporation, either of lands
• DEVISEE
  One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
• CO-LEGATEE
  A joint legatee.
• COINHERITOR
  A coheir.