Inheritance

Noun

 * 1) The passing of title to an estate upon death.
 * 2)  That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
 * 3) (biology) The hereditary passing of biological attributes from ancestors to their offspring.
 * 4)  In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Related terms

 * inherit
 * inheritable
 * inheritor
 * preheritance

Adjectives for Inheritance
dismal; fairest; fallen; ill-starred; astounding; storied; entailed; occasional; moderate; racial.

Verbs for Inheritance
administer—; bequeath—; bless with—; come into—; confirm—; derive—from; divide—; enjoy—; entitle to—; forfeit—; forsake—; grant—; lay claim to—; portion—; preserve—; profit by—; relinquish—; re¬store to—; scatter—; squander—; succeed to —; tax—; —enriches; —falls to.

Thesaurus
Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birth, birthright, borough-English, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, codicil, coheirship, coparcenary, determinant, determiner, devise, diathesis, endowment, entail, eugenics, factor, gavelkind, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, heirloom, heirship, hereditability, hereditament, heredity, heritability, heritable, heritage, heritance, inborn capacity, incorporeal hereditament, inheritability, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, matrocliny, mode of succession, patrimony, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, postremogeniture, primogeniture, probate, property, recessive character, replication, reversion, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, will

Etymology
Recorded since 1473, from to inherit, itself from enheriter "make heir, appoint as heir," from  inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from  in- "in" + hereditare "to inherit," from heres (gen. heredis) "heir".

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 遺產, 遗产
 * Dutch: erfenis, erfdeel
 * Esperanto: heredo
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 * Polish: spadek
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: nasledstvo
 * Swedish: arv


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 * Irish:
 * Polish: dziedziczenie
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: nasleđivanje


 * Chinese:
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 * Dutch: erfelijkheid
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 * Italian:
 * Polish: dziedziczenie
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 * Swedish: arv


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 * Polish: dziedziczenie
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 * : (1,2,3)
 * : Erbschaft
 * : eredità
 * : yrfe
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