inheritance

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable)That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
3. (especially, uncountable)The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.

   “The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.”

4. (countable, uncountable)The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (countable, uncountable)The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.