Inheritance - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner (syn: heritage)
- (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
- any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors (syn: heritage)
Extra examples
She began her own business with the inheritance she got from her grandfather.
He left sizable inheritances to his children.
The buildings are part of the city's architectural inheritance.
Lucinda has to fight for her life and her inheritance in this gripping novel.
Our genetic inheritance cannot be changed.
No heirs came forward to claim the inheritance.
She felt she had been diddled out of her inheritance.
No, a safe and humble backbencher's niche in the Senate was the inheritance of a Julius these days.
...the spendthrift managed to blow all of his inheritance in a single year...
They did him out of his inheritance.
He rioted away his whole inheritance.
I will give you one squeak more for your inheritance.
Clancy's share of the inheritance was paid over to him.
The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance
He swindled me out of my inheritance
Word forms
singular: inheritance
plural: inheritances
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