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Found 3 items, similar to Inheritance.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: inheritance
peninggalan, warisan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: inheritance
inheritance
n 1: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
[syn:
heritage]
2: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that
passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn:
heritage]
3: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from
the parents [syn:
hereditary pattern]
4: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited
from ancestors;
“my only inheritance was my mother's
blessing”;
“the world's heritage of knowledge” [syn:
heritage]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Inheritance
Inheritance
\In*her"it*ance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.]
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1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an
estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
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2. 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.
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When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. --Shak.
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3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one
received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
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To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
that fadeth not away. --1 Pet. i. 4.
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4. Possession; ownership; acquisition.
“The inheritance of
their loves.” --Shak.
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To you th' inheritance belongs by right
Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love.
--Spenser.
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5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant
generation.
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6. (Law) 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. --Blackstone.
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Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined
to the title to land and tenements by a descent.
--Mozley & W.
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Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely
for themselves; their children have a title to
part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when
death has put an end to their parents' use of it;
and this we call inheritance. --Locke.
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