A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: heir; heritor; inheritor. Hypernyms (heir is a kind of...): receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 17, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents were William and Temperance (Tempie); they divorced shortly after she was born. Ella and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with her mother s boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
And check out the bonus item that makes Lorde that much more likable: 1  How else would you start, but by saying she's a chart topper. Her song Royals just hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. 2  She's only 16! She was born in 1996! 3  Lorde, born Ella Yelich-O'Connor, is from Auckland, New Zealand. Her father Vic O'Conner is a civil engineer and her mother Sonja Yelich is a poet. She was raised in the suburbs with three brothers and sisters. She likes music of all kinds.