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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#m1)

2) Inheritance is the passing of features from parents to children through genes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#m2)

3) Something passed down from the past: our cultural inheritance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x1)
- The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x2)
- Inheritance explains why you look like your parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x3)
- The house was her inheritance from her uncle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x4)
- Folk songs are part of our inheritance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x5)
- The family argued over the inheritance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x6)
- His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/13/)
- ['Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.968/)
- [According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.971/)
- [And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.991/)
- [And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.992/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inheritance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inheritance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.