hereditary
Meaning of hereditary
noun
A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
adjective- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
hereditary rulers
- Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
- Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
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Hyphenation of hereditary
hered-i-tary
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- hereditary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
hereditary synonyms
Meaning familial:
familial, genetic, inherited, transmitted, transmissible
Meaning ancestral:
ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible
hereditary antonyms
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Translation of hereditary
- German: erblich
- Italian: ereditario
- French: héréditaire
- Portuguese: hereditário
- Spanish: herencia, hereditario
Words that rhyme with hereditary
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