🔄 Synonyms of "Inheritance"
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| Word | Definition |
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| heritagenoun | A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| heritagenoun | A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. |
| legacynoun | Something inherited from a predecessor or the past. |
| bequestnoun | That which is left by will; a legacy. |
| probatenoun | (law) The legal process of verifying the legality of a will. |
| intestacynoun | (law) The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will. |
| heirnoun | Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. |
| inheritverb | (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. |
| estatenoun | The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. |
| propertynoun | Something that is owned. |
| patrimonynoun | A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor. |
| birthrightnoun | Something a person is entitled to due to the circumstances of their birth, such as an inheritance or citizenship. |
| heritabilitynoun | (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin |
| heirloomnoun | A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations. |
| endowmentnoun | Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution. |
| cleronomynoun | inheritance, heritage |
| successornoun | A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title. |
| successionnoun | An act, process, or instance of succeeding: |
| traditionnoun | A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays. |
| seriesnoun | A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other. |
| sequencenoun | A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series. |
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