inheritance

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//ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns//

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

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1
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2
That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
3
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.
4
The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5
The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance.

Formes

pluriel: inheritances

inhaler · One who inhales.inhaling · inhalation inherit · To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or…

inheritance · The passing of title to an estate upon death.

inherited · Obtained via an inheritance inhuman · Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel,…initial · Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the…

Les pages voisines — L'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.