inherit
Gain through succession
To inherit is to receive something from someone who has died—property, money, title, or position: She inherited her grandmother's house.
Beyond legal succession, inherit describes receiving traits from parents: He inherited his mother's eyes.
More broadly, to inherit is to come into possession of something left by predecessors: The new administration inherited a budget crisis.
The word implies reception without effort or choice on the receiver's part.
Faculty of deliberate choice
- testamentWritten proof or legacy
- executorAppointed estate manager
- probateWill validation proceedings
- estateProperty and grounds
beneficiary · bequest · trust · succession · intestate · devisee · legatee · decedent
Eldest inherits all
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- entitlementAssumed right to benefits
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
throne · succession · nobility · aristocracy · monarchy · peerage · bloodline · firstborn
Hereditary code molecule
- genesUnits of heredity
- chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
- allelesVariant forms of genes
recessive · dominant · genotype · phenotype · mutation · genome · genomics · polygenic
will
Faculty of deliberate choice
estate · beneficiary · bequest · trust · succession · intestate · devisee · legatee · decedent · entailment
primogeniture
Eldest inherits all
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- entitlementAssumed right to benefits
dynasty · throne · succession · nobility · aristocracy · monarchy · peerage · bloodline · firstborn · crown
DNA
Hereditary code molecule
- genesUnits of heredity
- chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
alleles · recessive · dominant · genotype · phenotype · mutation · genome · genomics · polygenic · monogenic
customs
Traditional practices or import taxes
- cultureCollective social practices
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- practicesRepeated training sessions
folklore · values · beliefs · legacy · ancestry · wisdom · teachings · ceremonies · rites · lore
antique
Old valued collectible
keepsake · memento · ancestral home · memorabilia · portrait · jewelry · land · property · fortune · collection
- IN- wordsinactive, incomplete, invisible, inside, indoor
- computing verbsrun, execute, process, compute, calculate
- evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation
- royal actionscoronation, decree, abdication, reign, knighting
- ownershipowner, own, ownership, possess, proprietorship
- takeovertakeover, take over, seize power, seizure, coup d'etat
- inheritance claimsLegal demands on estates
- inheritance taxLevy on bequeathed assets
- inherited traitGenetically transmitted characteristic
- inheritance taxesLevies on bequests
- inherited diseaseCondition passed through generations
- family inheritanceProperty passed through generations
inheritance, inherited, inheriting, inherits, disinherit, inheritances, disinherited, inheritable, disinherits