Synonyms for inheritance
ɪnˈhɛr ɪ tənsin·her·i·tance

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1. inheritance

   Synonyms:
   bequest, legacy, heritage, hereditament, patrimony, possession

   Antonyms:
   purchase, donation, acquisition, dissipation, alienation, forfeiture, lapse, escheatment

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1. inheritance, heritagenoun

   hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

   Synonyms:
   heritage, hereditary pattern

2. inheritance, heritagenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   heritage, hereditary pattern

3. inheritance, hereditary patternnoun

   (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

   Synonyms:
   heritage, hereditary pattern

4. inheritance, heritagenoun

   any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

   "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"

   Synonyms:
   heritage, hereditary pattern

Matched Categories

1. • Attribute
   • Law
   • Transferred Property

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1. inheritancenoun

   Synonyms:
   inheriting

2. inheritancenoun

   Synonyms:
   heritage, patrimony

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1. inheritancenoun

   Synonyms:
   heritage, patrimony, legacy

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1. List of paraphrases for "inheritance":

   succession, legacy, heredity, heritage, inherit, estate, heritability, successor, intestacy, estates, legacies

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1. Robert James say Smith:

   I will never forget that my path was paved by my parents, grandparents and generations of African-Americans whose names I will never know, their struggles, their courage, and their progress allowed me to strive and achieve. My story would only be possible in America, and it is incumbent on all of us to pay this inheritance forward.

2. Henry Brougham:

   It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

3. United States:

   [ The Supreme Court's decision ] said that the right of citizenship is not a matter of inheritance, that it never descends from generation to generation, it is related to where you're born, the Supreme Court's about the power of place. The Supreme Court has been a very expansive, and at the time, a corrective measure to a more exclusionary definition both legally as well as culturally as to what an American is.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

5. Joseph Goebbels:

   We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.