inheritance

inheritance has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
• n.. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
• n.. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
• n.. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner