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Synonyms for inherit
ɪnˈhɛr ɪtin·her·it
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Princeton's WordNet
inheritverb
obtain from someone after their death
"I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"
inheritverb
receive from a predecessor
"The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
inheritverb
receive by genetic transmission
"I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
inheritverb
Synonyms:
take from ancestors, take by inheritance, come into possession of as an heir
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "inherit":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1650 | enjoy | |
#5010 | legacy | |
#9542 | possess | |
#11534 | inheritance | |
#12997 | successor | |
#13762 | succession | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#21257 | inherit | |
#59967 | inheriting |
How to use inherit in a sentence?
Gualicho did not inherit this forelimb anatomy from an ancestor it shared with tyrannosaurs. Rather, it evolved independently in the two groups.
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
Incredible things are going on in Rwanda when it comes to women's land rights, if women can't inherit land, we see the continuation of inequality between genders. The only way most poor people get resources in their lifetime is to inherit - they don't have the money to purchase land.
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Actually appearing as "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" in _The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge_, published 1971)
Translations for inherit
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- ورثArabic
- heretarCatalan, Valencian
- zděditCzech
- erben, übernehmenGerman
- κληρονομήσειGreek
- herediEsperanto
- heredarSpanish
- periäFinnish
- hériterFrench
- ירשHebrew
- इनहेरिटHindi
- örökölHungarian
- ereditareItalian
- 受継ぐJapanese
- hereditoLatin
- ervenDutch
- arveNorwegian
- herdarPortuguese
- moșteniRomanian
- унасле́довать, насле́доватьRussian
- ärvaSwedish
- สืบทอดThai
- успадкуватиUkrainian
- gerönVolapük
- eriterWalloon
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