inheriting Definition

inherit
verb inherited, inheriting

1. To receive (money, property, a title, position, etc) after someone's death or through legal descent from a predecessor; to succeed to something.

Thesaurus: assume, fall heir to, be bequeathed, come into, succeed to, accede to.
2. To receive (genetically transmitted characteristics, eg eye colour) from the previous generation.
3. colloq
To receive something secondhand from someone.

Derivative: inheritable

Capable of being passed by heredity from one generation to another.

Capable of being inherited.

Derivative: inheritor
noun

Etymology: 14c: from French enheriter, from Latin inhereditare.