Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hereditary
IPA transcription: [hɚ'ɛdət,ɛɹi]
Pronunciations of hereditary
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible
    Meaning: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
  • Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible
    Meaning: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
Usage examples
  • The results were disastrous to our hereditary enemies.
  • You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna.
  • Was that ancient Kallikrates nothing but a splendid animal loved for his hereditary Greek beauty?
  • The horrible disease of leprosy is too common in Iceland; it is not contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.
  • From a tender regard to the expiring prejudices of Rome, the Barbarian declined the name, the purple, and the diadem, of the emperors; but he assumed, under the hereditary title of king, the whole substance and plenitude of Imperial prerogative.
  • "These hereditary enemies of the Truth... have even had the heart to degrade this first preacher of the Mountain, the purest hero of Liberty; for, unable to deny that he was earth's greatest man, they have made of him heaven's smallest god."--Heine: Reisebilder.
  • To reduce hereditary royalty to the condition of an elective authority, the only means that I am acquainted with are to circumscribe its sphere of action beforehand, gradually to diminish its prerogatives, and to accustom the people to live without its protection.
  • I even went so far as to speak of a slightly hectic cough with which, at one time, I had been troubled--of a chronic rheumatism--of a twinge of hereditary gout--and, in conclusion, of the disagreeable and inconvenient, but hitherto carefully concealed, weakness of my eyes.
  • But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an object, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were by their means established almost everywhere--the old form of government being hereditary monarchy with definite prerogatives--and Hellas began to fit out fleets and apply herself more closely to the sea.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Boshin War, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording David After Dentist, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Black Russian Terrier, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hereditary peer, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Human, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording DNA repair, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sophie, Countess of Wessex, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cat, License CC BY-SA 4.0