Usually means: Receive assets or traits legally.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word inherit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inherit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inherit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inherit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inherit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inherit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inherit, inherit: Wordnik
  7. inherit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inherit: Wiktionary
  9. inherit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inherit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inherit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inherit: Dictionary.com
  13. inherit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inherit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inherit (Free Kitten album), Inherit (album), Inherit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inherit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inherit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inherit: Rhymezone
  19. inherit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inherit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inherit: Free Dictionary
  22. inherit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inherit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. inherit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. inherit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. inherit: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. inherit: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. inherit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inherit: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
verb:  (intransitive) To come into an inheritance.
verb:  (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
verb:  (transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
verb:  (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
verb:  (computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
verb:  (computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.

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