inheritance.
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Meaning & usage
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.