inheritance

«inheritance» in Mova's school dictionary: money, property or things you receive from someone who… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (inheritance, uncountable; an inheritance, inheritances)

meaning for a pupil

1) An inheritance is money, property or things you receive from someone who has died. tree →

2) Inheritance is the passing of features from parents to children through genes. tree →

3) Something passed down from the past: our cultural inheritance. tree →

sense in the lessons

Science (genetic inheritance), money and law (a will, inheritance tax), stories and Bible (the prodigal son asked for his inheritance).

examples

• He spent his inheritance on a farm. tree →
• The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early. tree →
• Inheritance explains why you look like your parents. tree →
• The house was her inheritance from her uncle. tree →
• Folk songs are part of our inheritance. tree →
• The family argued over the inheritance. tree →
• His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance. tree →

note

Countable or uncountable. Related: heir, heritage, inherit. In money problems, an inheritance shared equally is divided by the number of heirs.

In the corpora

• An inheritance is money or belongings left by someone who has died, as written in their will.
• 'Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
• According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'
• And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
• And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inheritance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.