All inheritance synonyms
in·her·it·ance
I i noun inheritance
- legacy — legacy system
- bequest — A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
- birthright — Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- tradition — the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.
- estate — An area or amount of land or property, in particular.
- heritance — inheritance.