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The passing of title to an estate upon death. / (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

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inheritance

Source Word

inheritance

IPA(Pronunciation)

countable uncountable especially

Japanese Meaning

相続（死亡後に遺族や指定された者が不動産や財産を受け継ぐこと） / 遺産（法律や遺言に基づいて受け取る財産）

After their grandmother's death, the siblings disputed the inheritance for months before finally reaching a settlement.

祖母の死後、兄弟姉妹は何か月も相続をめぐって争い、ようやく和解に至った。

Sense（1）

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

Sense（2）

(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

Sense（3）

(uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

Sense（4）

(biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

Sense（5）

(programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

inheritances

（ plural ）