Synonyms: inheritance, heritage
Definition: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Similar words: acquisition
Definition: the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
Usage: the acquisition of wealth; the acquisition of one company by another
Synonyms: heritage, inheritance
Definition: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
Usage: my only inheritance was my mother's blessing; the world's heritage of knowledge
Similar words: attribute
Definition: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
Synonyms: inheritance, hereditary pattern
Definition: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Similar words: heredity, genetic endowment
Definition: the total of inherited attributes
Synonyms: inheritance, heritage
Definition: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Similar words: transferred possession, transferred property
Definition: a possession whose ownership changes or lapses