noun possession; ownership; acquisition.
2. inheritance ·noun transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
3. inheritance ·noun a permanent or valuable possession or blessing, ·esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
4. inheritance ·noun the act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
5. inheritance ·noun that which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
6. inheritance ·noun a perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.