English-Spanish translations for inheritance

• herencia
  Es una herencia que se remonta a tiempos muy lejanos. It is an inheritance that goes back further in time.
  Y es por el importante problema de la herencia genética. This is because of the major problem of genetic inheritance.
  Allí estudiamos la herencia nuclear de la Unión Soviética. There we studied the nuclear inheritance of the Soviet Union.
• legado
  Turquía también ha renunciado oficialmente a su legado islámico. Turkey has also officially renounced its Islamic inheritance.
  Tal es nuestro legado en la Europa actual. This is our inheritance in today's Europe.
  La Señora Morgan recoge ahora este particular legado al pedir una despolitización del proceso de aprobación de la gestión. Miss Morgan now continues this particular inheritance by asking for a depolitisation of the discharge process.
• patrimonio
  Creo que la cultura es patrimonio de todos, todos debemos defenderla y nadie debe apropiarse de ella. I believe that culture is the inheritance of all of us, we must all defend it and nobody must appropriate it for themselves.
  Cuando alguien toca ese símbolo, nos toca a todos profundamente, porque forma parte de nuestros lazos y patrimonio comunes, humanos, democráticos. When someone touches that symbol, they touch us all deeply, because it is part of our common, human, democratic bond and inheritance.
  Para mi Grupo y para mí mismo está igualmente claro que la herencia genética de la humanidad debe seguir siendo patrimonio común y no debe ser negociado en el parket de la bolsa. It is just as clear to my group and to myself that the genetic inheritance of humanity must remain common property and should not be sold off on the floor of the stock exchange.

Definition of inheritance

• The passing of title to an estate upon death
• The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
• The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring

Examples

• The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

Related words

• disinheritance
• inheritance tax
• inheritance law
• multiple inheritance
• simple inheritance
• single inheritance