What does inheritance mean?

Definitions for inheritance
ɪnˈhɛr ɪ tənsin·her·i·tance

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word inheritance.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. inheritance, heritagenoun

    hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

  2. inheritance, heritagenoun

    that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

  3. inheritance, hereditary patternnoun

    (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

  4. inheritance, heritagenoun

    any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

    "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"

Wiktionary

  1. inheritancenoun

    The passing of title to an estate upon death.

  2. inheritancenoun

    That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

  3. inheritancenoun

    (biology) The hereditary passing of biological attributes from ancestors to their offspring.

  4. inheritancenoun

    In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

  5. Etymology: Recorded since 1473, from to inherit, itself from enheriter "make heir, appoint as heir," from inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from in- "in" + hereditare "to inherit," from heres (gen. heredis) "heir".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inheritancenoun

    Etymology: from inherit.

    In the book of Numbers it is writ,
    When the son dies let the inheritance
    Descend unto the daughter. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house. Gen. xxxi. 14.

    Claim our just inheritance of old. John Milton.

    Oh dear, unhappy babe! must I bequeath thee
    Only a sad inheritance of woe?
    Gods! cruel gods! can't all my pains atone,
    Unless they reach my infant's guiltless head? Smith.

    You will rather shew our general lowts
    How you can frown, than spend a fawn upon them,
    For the inheritance of their loves, and safeguard
    Of what that want might ruin. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    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. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  1. Inheritance

    Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officially bequeathing private property and/or debts can be performed by a testator via will, as attested by a notary or by other lawful means.

ChatGPT

  1. inheritance

    Inheritance is a fundamental concept in object-oriented programming where a class (known as the child or derived class) can inherit the properties and behaviors of another class (known as the parent or base class). This allows the child class to reuse and extend the functionality of the parent class, gaining access to its attributes, methods, and other members. Through inheritance, code can be organized hierarchically, promoting reusability, modularity, and maintainability in software development.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inheritancenoun

    the act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities

  2. Inheritancenoun

    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

  3. Inheritancenoun

    a permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction

  4. Inheritancenoun

    possession; ownership; acquisition

  5. Inheritancenoun

    transmission and reception by animal or plant generation

  6. Inheritancenoun

    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

  7. Etymology: [Cf. OF. enheritance.]

Wikidata

  1. Inheritance

    Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time. The term is also used to refer to the passing of characteristics, for example, genetically or in computing.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'inheritance' in Nouns Frequency: #2592

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inheritance in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inheritance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of inheritance in a Sentence

  1. Karl Kraus:

    Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  2. Carly Fiorina:

    Donald, sorry, I've got to interrupt again. You would know something about pathological, how was that meeting with Putin? Or Wharton? Or your self funded campaign? Anyone can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money in the world won't make you as smart as Ben Carson.

  3. Carly Fiorina:

    Anyone can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money in the world won't make you as smart as Ben Carson.

  4. Sher Mohammad:

    Islam has given women all fundamental rights, such as business and ownership, inheritance, education, work, choosing one's husband, security and the right to good life.

  5. Peter Buffett:

    We never thought about an inheritance. We never assumed we would be getting anything at any time and we weren't bitter or thinking that we should for some reason, we just grew up in a house where you work hard and you make your way in life and hopefully you have a well-lived life based on all sorts of criteria.

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