0 present participle of inherit
1 to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died:
2 to be born with the same physical or mental characteristics as one of your parents or grandparents:
3 to begin to have responsibility for a problem or situation that previously existed or belonged to another person:
She will inherit her father's estate when she is 21.
She inherited a fortune from her grandmother.
He inherited the family business, but he had little interest in it and soon sold it.
In inheriting the value frames of elite rhetoric, citizens may end up endorsing values from both sides of the partisan divide.
Rather than inheriting honorable social status or ancestral property from his father, he inherited only his debts.
All the above instances of daughters inheriting land add up to only a small proportion of those eligible.
