inheritance

1. n. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. Source: opted

2. n. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. Source: opted

3. n. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. Source: opted

4. n. Possession; ownership; acquisition. Source: opted

5. n. Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. Source: opted

6. n. A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Source: opted

7. n. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property Source: wordnet

8. n. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner Source: wordnet

9. n. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents Source: wordnet

10. n. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors Source: wordnet

11. 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. Shak. 3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4. 4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. "The inheritance of their loves." Shak. To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke Spenser. 5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. 6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Blackstone. Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. Mozley & W. Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. Locke. Source: webster

12. Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. Source: adambom

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