inheritance

noun

Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite

Line style: core relation; instance, member or derived; substance, domain or see-also

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Senses

hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

my only inheritance was my mother's blessing

Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	derivation	Related & opposite	inherit
1	hypernym	Types & categories	acquisition
2	domain topic	Related & opposite	law
2	part meronym	Parts & wholes	heirloom
2	hypernym	Types & categories	transferred property
2	hyponym	Types & categories	primogeniture
2	hyponym	Types & categories	borough English
2	hyponym	Types & categories	accretion
2	hyponym	Types & categories	bequest
2	hyponym	Types & categories	birthright
2	hyponym	Types & categories	devise
2	hyponym	Types & categories	heirloom
3	derivation	Related & opposite	inherit
3	domain topic	Related & opposite	genetics
3	hypernym	Types & categories	genetic endowment
3	hyponym	Types & categories	ancestry
3	hyponym	Types & categories	gene linkage
3	hyponym	Types & categories	X-linked dominant inheritance
3	hyponym	Types & categories	X-linked recessive inheritance
4	hypernym	Types & categories	attribute
4	hyponym	Types & categories	birthright
4	hyponym	Types & categories	background
4	hyponym	Types & categories	birthright
4	hyponym	Types & categories	upbringing