His generous bequest enabled the church to continue funding the youth group.
Source: tatoeba (8606182)
Bequest
//bɪˈkwɛst//
Synonyms for "bequest" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
52 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- завещание noun (will of the deceased)
- наследство noun (a person's inheritance)
Danish
2 entries- dødsgave noun (a person's inheritance)
- dødslejegave noun (a person's inheritance)
Esperanto
1 entries- testamentaĵo noun (will of the deceased)
Faroese
2 entries- arvleiddur serarvur noun (a person's inheritance)
- stakarvur noun (a person's inheritance)
Finnish
1 entries- testamenttilahjoitus noun (a person's inheritance)
French
3 entries- héritage noun (a person's inheritance)
- legs noun (a person's inheritance)
- testament noun (will of the deceased)
Galician
4 entries- herdanza noun (a person's inheritance)
- legado noun (will of the deceased)
- legado noun (a person's inheritance)
- manda noun (will of the deceased)
German
4 entries- Erbschaft noun (a person's inheritance)
- Testament noun (will of the deceased)
- vererben verb (give as a bequest)
- vermachen verb (give as a bequest)
Icelandic
1 entries- dánargjöf noun (a person's inheritance)
Irish
1 entries- tiomna noun (will of the deceased)
Italian
4 entries- eredità noun (a person's inheritance)
- lascito noun (will of the deceased)
- testamento noun (will of the deceased)
- volontà noun (will of the deceased)
Latin
1 entries- lēgātum noun (a person's inheritance)
Macedonian
1 entries- наследство noun (a person's inheritance)
Māori
3 entries- oha noun (will of the deceased)
- oha verb (give as a bequest)
- tukuoha verb (give as a bequest)
Norwegian
1 entries- testament noun (will of the deceased)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- legat noun (a person's inheritance)
- testamentarisk gave noun (a person's inheritance)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- testamentarisk gåve noun (a person's inheritance)
Portuguese
1 entries- testamento noun (will of the deceased)
Russian
3 entries- завещание noun (will of the deceased)
- насле́дство noun (a person's inheritance)
- завещать verb (give as a bequest)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- tiomnadh noun (will of the deceased)
Spanish
3 entries- heredad noun (a person's inheritance)
- herencia noun (a person's inheritance)
- testamento noun (will of the deceased)
Swedish
3 entries- legat noun (a person's inheritance)
- postum gåva noun (a person's inheritance)
- testamentsgåva noun (a person's inheritance)
Ukrainian
4 entries- запові́т noun (will of the deceased)
- спа́док noun (a person's inheritance)
- спа́дщина noun (a person's inheritance)
- заповіда́ти verb (give as a bequest)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Did the bequest cover the cost of recruiting a professor?
Source: tatoeba (9969669)
He left a large bequest to the Mozilla Foundation.
Source: tatoeba (10059791)
2006 SHERRY CLODMAN & EDWARD H. PEARCE: Well Advised. p.25 Civil Sector Press →ISBN A specific bequest is the gift of a specific sum of money, or the gift of a specific property or a particular asset. Perhaps the most common type of bequest, and undoubtedly the most certain, it is the first to be paid after the settlement of estate debts.
Source: wiktionary
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