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herencia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bequest noun Property or money left to someone in a will.
  • heredity noun The passing of physical or genetic traits from parents to their children.
  • heritage noun Traditions, buildings, culture, or values passed down from earlier generations.
  • inheritance noun Money, property, or possessions passed to someone after a person's death.

Senses

herencia is used for these senses in English:

  • bequest A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.
  • heredity Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
  • heritage An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
  • inheritance (programming, object-oriented) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

bequest — full definition

  1. noun Property or money left to someone in a will.
  2. noun Something valuable handed down from the past, such as a tradition or idea.

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