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INHERITANCE
inheritance, heritage
(noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
inheritance, heritage
(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; “my only inheritance was my mother’s blessing”; “the world’s heritage of knowledge”
inheritance, hereditary pattern
(noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
inheritance, heritage
(noun) 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® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(uncountable, especially, linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
(biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
(programming, object-oriented) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Hyponyms
• classical inheritance
• dual inheritance
• dynamic inheritance
• multiple inheritance
• parasitic inheritance
• prototypal inheritance
• static inheritance
• Swiss inheritance
Source: Wiktionary
In*her"it*ance, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. enheritance.]
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.)
Definition: Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
6. (Law)
Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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