Inheritance

[ɪn'herɪt(ə)ns] or [ɪn'hɛrɪtəns]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property.

(noun.) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; 'my only inheritance was my mother's blessing'; 'the world's heritage of knowledge'.

(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.

編輯:齐克--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

(n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

(n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.

(n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.

(n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

(n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.

整理:史黛丝

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Inheriting.[2]. Heritage, patrimony.

加德纳整理

同義詞及反義詞：

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

ANT:Purchase, donation, acquisition, dissipation, alienation, forfeiture, lapse,escheatment

校對:凯特