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Another word for bequest

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Noun
      1. Money or property given to another by will.
      2. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past:
      3. An individual who is either an applicant to an educational institution or a matriculated student and is the child of an alumna or alumnus.
      1. The act of endowing.
      2. Funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income.
      3. A natural gift, ability, or quality.
      1. A landed property, usually of considerable size.
      2. One's property, both real and personal, vested and contingent, especially as disposed of in a will.
      3. The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.
      1. The action of inheriting something:
      2. Something inherited or to be inherited:
      3. Something regarded as a heritage:
    See also:

    gift

    estate

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Sentence Examples

  • Towards the close of the 14th century all the separate portions had come by inheritance or bequest into the hands of Rudolph IV.

  • The institution owes its origin to a bequest left by John McDonogh.

  • According to Aubrey, Selden left him an equal bequest, but this seems to be a mistake.

  • The art association of Indianapolis was founded in 1883; and under its auspices is conducted an art school (1902) in accordance with the bequest of John Herron (1817-1895), the school and museum of the association being housed in the John Herron Art Institute, dedicated in 1906.

  • His chief benefaction, however, was a bequest of $400,000 for the foundation and endowment of a public library in New York City, since known as the Astor library, and since 1895 part of the New York public library.

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