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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

inheritance

/in-her-i-tuhns/US // ɪnˈhɛr ɪ təns //UK // (ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns) //

遗产,继承,继承性,继承权

Related Words

legacy遗产,遗留问题,遗赠,遗留bequest遗赠,遗产,遗赠品,遗嘱estate遗产,财产,庄园,房地产heritage遗产,文物,遗迹,传统devise制订,设计,制定,设计出birthright长子的权利,生来的权利,生有权,长生不老的权利heirloom传家宝,祖传,祖传的,传世gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品primogeniture长子继承,长子继承权,长子继承制,长子选举heritance遗产,遗传,传承,继承性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.
    • : the genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively.
    • : something, as a quality, characteristic, or other immaterial possession, received from progenitors or predecessors as if by succession: an inheritance of family pride.
    • : the act or fact of inheriting by succession, as if by succession, or genetically: to receive property by inheritance.
    • : portion; birthright; heritage: Absolute rule was considered the inheritance of kings.
    • : Obsolete. right of possession; ownership.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpossession gained through someone's death
Synonyms
bequest遗赠,遗产,遗赠品,遗嘱estate遗产,财产,庄园,房地产heritage遗产,文物,遗迹,传统legacy遗产,遗留问题,遗赠,遗留birthright长子的权利,生来的权利,生有权,长生不老的权利devise制订,设计,制定,设计出gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品heirloom传家宝,祖传,祖传的,传世primogeniture长子继承,长子继承权,长子继承制,长子选举heritance遗产,遗传,传承,继承性

Examples

  • Our friendship helped me grasp my inheritance—as an Armenian, as an American, as a human—and to begin the journey of processing it on my own terms.

  • The preference for sons among land-owning caste groups in the north is supported by local people’s disapproval of inheritance laws that acknowledge the rights of males and females equally.

  • Zanders helped build a case that the skewed inheritance in these yeast was a real effect, not just fluctuations in the data.

  • LGBTQ individuals are able to serve in the military, are protected by anti-discrimination laws and have adoption and same-sex inheritance rights.

  • On average, for adults born in the 1980s, the researchers estimate inheritances will make up 14% of their overall lifetime income, up from 8% for those born in in the 1960s.

  • The cops say Kakehi gained several hundred million yen in inheritance from the deaths over the years.

  • What I assume is that we will come to a final peaceful settlement in which we agree on the value of the inheritance.

  • That is to say, the ancestral genes, the ancestral strain of inheritance, appears again in these little children.

  • Among boomers who will receive an inheritance, the top 10 percent will receive more than every other decile combined.

  • In some ways the emerging age of inheritance stems from the success Americans enjoyed over the past half century.

  • In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheritance.

  • The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

  • He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an inheritance, and divided him his portion in twelve tribes.

  • And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.

  • My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.

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