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inheritance

noun
/ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from enheritaunce
  2. inherited from enheritaunce

Definitions

  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…

    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 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. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

    2. The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

The neighborhood

Derived

blending inheritance, coinheritance, composition over inheritance, disinheritance, inheritance law, inheritance powder, inheritance tax, misinheritance, noninheritance, particulate inheritance, preheritance, widow inheritance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inheritance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inheritance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at inheritance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA