Any money or property you receive after the death of a friend or relative is an inheritance. Your grandmother might have left you a small inheritance, but she left the bulk of her estate to her Chihuahua, Killer.
The act or state of inheriting;
Noun
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Noun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother''s blessing"; "the world''s heritage of knowledge"
Noun
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Noun
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
n.
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of
an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
n.
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.
n.
A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp.
one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
n.
Possession; ownership; acquisition.
n.
Transmission and reception by animal or plant
generation.
n.
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.
Inheritance
When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter.3.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.4.
To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke longs his love.5.
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.
The act or state of inheriting;
Usage Examples
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
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Other Usage ExamplesEvery time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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