May 2008
INHERITANCE
- Calhoun: Danielle N.
- Campbell: Gavin M.
- Campos: Melanie C.
- Price: Lynn C.
- Spittle: Ann-Marie
- Subritzky: Mike
- Sutherland: Terry D.
- Willbond: Billy
- Williams: Sheila
Inheritance:
- noun: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
- noun: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors Example: "My only inheritance was my mother's blessing"
- noun: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
- noun: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Inheritance:
Pronunciation: \in-her-ə-tən(t)s, -he-rə-\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
- The act of inheriting property
- the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring
- the acquisition of a possession, condition, or trait from past generations
- something that is or may be inherited
- tradition
- a valuable possession that is a common heritage from nature
- Obsolete: possession