inheritances
What heirs receive
Inheritances is the plural of inheritance—money, property, or other assets received from someone who has died.
The word extends to non-material things passed down: genetic inheritances, cultural inheritances.
In programming, inheritances refer to how objects or classes receive properties from parent classes.
The siblings disputed their inheritances for years.
Property and grounds
- bequestGift left by will
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- probateWill validation proceedings
heir · trust · testament · executor · legacy · intestate · succession · codicil
Abundance of valuable resources
- assetsOwned items of value
- propertySomething owned or inherent
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
portfolio · real estate · stocks · bonds · capital gains · tax · proceeds · annuity
Distinguishing personal features
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- genesUnits of heredity
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
alleles · dominant · recessive · bloodline · ancestry · lineage · mutation · phenotype
estate
Property and grounds
- bequestGift left by will
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
probate · heir · trust · testament · executor · legacy · intestate · succession · codicil · distribution
wealth
Abundance of valuable resources
windfall · portfolio · real estate · stocks · bonds · capital gains · tax · proceeds · annuity · dividends
traits
Distinguishing personal features
chromosomes · alleles · dominant · recessive · bloodline · ancestry · lineage · mutation · phenotype · genotype
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- legacyWhat's passed down
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
recipes · language · folklore · rituals · values · crafts · stories · ancestral · generational · practices
class
Grouping by shared traits
child · hierarchy · polymorphism · method · override · extends · superclass · derived · prototype · interface
- inheritanceheir, bequest, bequests, beneficiary, beneficiaries
- tax-free incometax-free income, non-taxable income, non-taxable, tax-exempt, Roth IRA
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, archive, monument, landmark
- museum termspaintings, sculptures, exhibits, gallery, artifacts
- propertyproperty, land, ownership, house, home
- passive incomedividends, interest, rental income, royalties, capital gains
inheritancesearnings
Money gained from work
wages · salaries · profits · earned income · self-made wealth
inheritancesbequests
Property left by will
legacies · endowments · donations · charitable giving · dowries
inheritancesdisinheritances
Exclusions from inheritance rights
forfeitures · confiscations · dispossessions · losses · seizures
- inheritance claimsLegal demands on estates
- inheritance taxLevy on bequeathed assets
- inheritance taxesLevies on bequests
- family inheritanceProperty passed through generations
- inheritance disputeLegal conflict over bequests
- maternal inheritanceGenes from the mother