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say it: in-HER-uh-tuhns
inheritance is a noun meaning "hereditary succession to a title or an office or property". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈhɛɹətəns/ — in-HER-uh-tuhns. It carries 4 recorded senses.
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
law
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
genetics
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
“my only inheritance was my mother's blessing”
“the world's heritage of knowledge”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inheritance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.