hereditary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.

2. 2

   Of a title, honor or right

   Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

   • Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
3. 3

   Of a person

   Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

   • hereditary rulers
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   1. 4

      Of a disease or trait

      Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.

      • Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
   2. 5

      Of a ring

      Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

   3. 6

      Of a property of graphs

      Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.

   4. 7

      A hereditary ruler

      A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

The neighborhood

• synonyminhereditary
• antonymnonhereditary
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