| 单词 | inheritance |
| 释义 | inheritance (once / 442 pages) n Any money or property you receive after the death of a friend or relative is an inheritance. Your grandmother might have left you a small inheritance, but she left the bulk of her estate to her Chihuahua, Killer. A title that passes with death is also called an inheritance. If the current monarch of Britain dies, the inheritance passes to the next in line for the throne, first to the oldest son. A trait that is passed from parent to child genetically is also referred to as an inheritance. The inheritance of red hair, for example, might be common in your family. WORD FAMILYinheritance: inheritances+/disinherit: disinheritance, disinherited, disinheriting, disinherits/disinheritance: disinheritances/inherit: disinherit, inheritable, inheritance, inherited, inheriting, inheritor, inherits/inheritable: noninheritable/inheritor: inheritors USAGE EXAMPLESIn a stuffy second-floor squad room, the detectives of the 40th Precinct grapple with an inheritance of government neglect. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) The rest owe their fortunes partly or entirely from an inheritance. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Cystic fibrosis is caused by the inheritance of two copies of a defective gene, one from each parent. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n hereditary succession to a title or an office or property Syn|Hyper heritage acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something 2n any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors my only inheritance was my mother's blessing Syn|Hypo|Hyper heritage birthright personal characteristics that are inherited at birth backgrounda person's social heritage: previous experience or training birthrighta right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth upbringingproperties acquired during a person's formative years breeding, education, trainingthe result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) nurture, raising, rearingthe properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child attribute an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity 3n that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner Syn|Hypo|Hyper heritage primogeniture right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son borough Englisha former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers accretion(law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) bequest, legacy(law) a gift of personal property by will birthright, patrimonyan inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) devise(law) a gift of real property by will heirloomsomething that has been in a family for generations transferred possession, transferred property a possession whose ownership changes or lapses 4n (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents Syn|Hypo|Hyper hereditary pattern ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline gene linkage, linkage(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) X-linked dominant inheritancehereditary pattern in which a dominant gene on the X chromosome causes a characteristic to be manifested in the offspring X-linked recessive inheritancehereditary pattern in which a recessive gene on the X chromosome results in the manifestation of characteristics in male offspring and a carrier state in female offspring descent, extraction, originproperties attributable to your ancestry bloodline, pedigreeancestry of a purebred animal genetic endowment, heredity the total of inherited attributes |
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