| Main Entry: | inheritance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possession gained through someone's death |
Synonyms: |
bequest, birthright, devise, estate, gift, heirloom, heritage, heritance, legacy, primogeniture |
| Main Entry: | acquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something obtained, received |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, allowance, annuity, award, benefit, bonus, commission, dividend, donation, earnings, fortune, gain, gift, grant, income, increment, inheritance, net, premium, prize, proceeds, profit, remuneration, return, reward, riches, salary, security, wages, wealth, winnings |
| Notes: | acquisition is a material possession while an acquirement is a personal skill or knowledge that one gains |
| Main Entry: | allowance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amount of money or other supply |
Synonyms: |
aid, alimony, allocation, allotment, annuity, apportionment, bequest, bite*, bounty, commission, contribution, cut, endowment, fee, fellowship, gift, grant, honorarium, inheritance, interest, legacy, lot, measure, part, pay, pension, piece, portion, prize, quantity, quota, ration, recompense, remittance, salary, scholarship, share, slice, stint, stipend, subsidy, taste, wage |
| Main Entry: | bequest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given in will |
Synonyms: |
bequeathal, bequeathment, bestowal, devisal, devise, dower, endowment, estate, gift, heritage, inheritance, legacy, settlement, trust |
| Main Entry: | endowment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large gift |
Synonyms: |
award, benefaction, benefit, bequest, bestowal, boon, bounty, dispensation, donation, fund, funding, gifting, grant, gratuity, income, inheritance, largess, legacy, nest egg, pension, presentation, property, provision, revenue, stake, stipend, subsidy, trust |
Antonyms: |
loss |
| Main Entry: | estate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's possessions, property, wealth |
Synonyms: |
assets, belongings, bequest, capital, chattels, devise, earthly possessions, effects, endowment, fortune, goods, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony, substance |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
Synonyms: |
ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth, possessions |
Synonyms: |
affluence, capital, estate, gold mine, inheritance, opulence, portion, property, prosperity, resources, riches, substance, treasure, worth |
Antonyms: |
hardship, misfortune, poverty |
| Main Entry: | heirloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something inherited, often antique |
Synonyms: |
antique, bequest, birthright, gift, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony, reversion |
| Main Entry: | heredity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transmission of traits from parents to offspring |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, congenital traits, constitution, eugenics, genesiology, genetic make-up, genetics, inborn character, inheritance |
Antonyms: |
acquirement |