INHERITANCE
\ɪnhˈɛɹɪtəns], \ɪnhˈɛɹɪtəns], \ɪ_n_h_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of INHERITANCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
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any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
By Princeton University
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hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
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any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
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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.
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A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
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Possession; ownership; acquisition.
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Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
By Oddity Software
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The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
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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.
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A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
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Possession; ownership; acquisition.
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Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of coming into a property handed down by ancestors or others; that which is received from an ancestor or other person; a possession or blessing, especially one bestowed.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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That which is or may be inherited: an estate derived from an ancestor: hereditary descent: natural gift: possession.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. An estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir ; -a permanent or valuable possession or blessing ;—a possession received by gift, or without purchase ; possession ; ownership —right or title to a succession of property.
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Patrimony, hereditary possession; in Shakespeare, possesion; the reception of possession by hereditary right.
By Thomas Sheridan
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