Inheritance vs. Heritage
Difference Between Inheritance and Heritage
Inheritancenoun
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Heritagenoun
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
Inheritancenoun
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
Heritagenoun
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
Inheritancenoun
(biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
Heritagenoun
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
Inheritancenoun
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Heritagenoun
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.Inheritancenoun
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Heritagenoun
practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;
a heritage of freedomInheritancenoun
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Heritagenoun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
my only inheritance was my mother's blessingthe world's heritage of knowledgeInheritancenoun
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Heritagenoun
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Inheritancenoun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
my only inheritance was my mother's blessingthe world's heritage of knowledgeHeritagenoun
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
