inheritance

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
  3. (especially, uncountable) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Frequenz

C1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance.

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