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inheritances

inheritances is the plural of inheritance.

Meaning of inheritance

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

  1. 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.
    • The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
  4. (genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  5. (object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Questions about inheritances

What is inheritances the plural of?
Inheritances is the plural of inheritance.

Words near inheritances in the dictionary

  1. inheritance law
  2. inheritance powder
  3. inheritance powders
  4. inheritance tax
  5. inheritance taxes
  6. inheritances
  7. inherited
  8. inherited audience
  9. inherited audiences
  10. inheritedness
  11. inheritee

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