Dictionary Entry
inheritance
inheritance is a 11-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
- 4noun
Possession; ownership; acquisition.
- 5noun
Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Synonyms
- 8noun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
"my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"
"the world's heritage of knowledge"
Synonyms
- 9noun
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
- 10noun
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
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