Dictionary entry

Inherit

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈhɛrɪt/

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈhɛrɪt/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) အမွေဆက်ခံသည်။ အမွေရသည်။ ဆိုးမွေကောင်းမွေခံသည်၊ ဆက်ခံသည်။ မျိုးရိုးလိုက်၍ ကူးစက်ခံရသည်။ inherits, inherited, inheriting

Definition

inherit /Çn'herÇt/ v ~ sth (from sb) ၁။ အေမြဆက္ခံသည္။ His son will inherit the estate. ❍ She inherited a little money from her grandfather. Compare DISINHERIT ၂။ အေမြရသည္။ She inherited her mother's good looks and her father's bad temper. ၃။ ဆိုးေမြေကာင္းေမြခံသည္၊ ဆက္ခံသည္။ This administration has inherited many problems (from the previous one). ❏ inheritance /-ǝns/ n ၁။ [U] အေမြဆက္ခံျခင္း။ The title passes by inheritance to the eldest son. ❍ inheritance tax. ၂။ [C] အေမြ။ When she was eighteen she came into (ie received) her inheritance. ❍ ( fig ) his artistic inheritance ❍ an inheritance of a dismal trading record. Compare LEGACY ❏ inheritor n အေမြဆက္ခံသူ။ အေမြစားအေမြခံ။ We are the inheritors of a great cultural tradition.

Examples

  1. [inherit something from someone] : He inherited the business from his father.
  2. The boys inherited Derek’s good looks.
  3. The road building programme we inherited from the previous government
  4. I inherited Janine’s desk and computer.
  5. Many countries have inherited traditions of public service.