Inherit

//ɪnˈhɛɹɪt// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. transitive

    "After Grandad died, I inherited the house."

  2. 2
    obtain from someone after their death wordnet
  3. 3
    To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.; To come into an inheritance. intransitive, transitive

    "Lucky old Daniel – his grandfather died rich, and he's inherited."

  4. 4
    receive by genetic transmission wordnet
  5. 5
    To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations). transitive

    "Your descendants will inherit the earth."

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  1. 6
    receive from a predecessor wordnet
  2. 7
    To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission. transitive

    "Let's hope the baby inherits his mother's looks and his father's intelligence."

  3. 8
    To derive from people or conditions previously in force. transitive

    "This country has inherited an invidious class culture."

  4. 9
    To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass. transitive

    "ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window."

  5. 10
    To derive a new class from (a superclass). transitive

    "For example, the following two code segments, from different assemblies, show how easy it is to inherit a class from another assembly."

  6. 11
    To put in possession of. obsolete, transitive

    "This, or else nothing, will inherit her"

Etymology

From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.

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