Noun
- 1. inheritance, heritage, acquisition
- usage: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
- 2. inheritance, heritage, transferred property, transferred possession
- usage: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
- 3. inheritance, hereditary pattern, heredity, genetic endowment
- usage: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
- 4. inheritance, heritage, attribute
- usage: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
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