Bequest

What do we mean by bequest?

The act of giving or leaving personal property by a will. noun

Something that is bequeathed; a legacy. noun

To give as a bequest; bequeath.

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. noun

That which is left by will; a legacy. noun

That which is or has been handed down or transmitted. noun

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. noun

That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift. noun

To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. transitive verb

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. noun

The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased. noun

That which is left by will; a legacy. noun

That which has been handed down or transmitted. noun

A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will. noun

To give as a bequest; bequeath. verb

(law) a gift of personal property by will noun

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.

The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.

That which is left by will; a legacy.

That which has been handed down or transmitted.

A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.

Should my son die leaving no surviving issue, such share shall be added to that portion of my estate being distributed pursuant to the previous paragraph. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bequest:
bequest, request, sequest.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bequest:
testator, bequeathed, benefactor, tate, endowment, philanthropist, stipulated, alumnus, donation, peabody, motive, gift, trustees, smithsonian, estate, fund, inheritance, gallery, prints, collector, hopkins, collection, library, johns, widow, mrs, sterling, wealthy, enabled, establish, drawings, charitable, gifts, funded, scholarship, sum, funds, legacy, fortune, pounds, trust, lecture, donated, merchant, businessman, rev, turner, museum, establishment, purchase, institution, sir, memory, volumes, trinity, samuel, grammar, archives, portrait, administered, charity, alfred, elder, sculpture, harvard, wealth, william, art, chapel, foundation, memorial, hospital, margaret, christopher, founding, nation, anne, dublin.

Words that rhyme with bequest:
test, manifest, best, rest, request, suggest, quest, attest, crest, nest, lest, contest, vest, chest, west, behest, arrest, zest, abreast, protest, blessed, invest, divest, jest, digest, incest, breast, distressed, obsessed, pest, guest, fest, ingest, detest, impressed, celeste, depressed, wrest, molest, assessed, unrest, accessed, blest, gest, possessed, stressed, pressed, inquest, este, infest, addressed, oppressed, teste, acquiesced, suppressed, geste, dressed, congest, recessed, northwest, midwest, expressed, slugfest, brest, armrest, compressed, southwest, budapest, coalesced, repressed, dispossessed, headrest, finessed, yest, prest, transgressed, professed, goldcrest, retest, alkahest, digressed, bucharest, mest, drest, caressed, backrest, feste, blood test, confessed, unimpressed, dest, self-professed, house arrest, at best, guessed, reinvest, messed, mae west, undressed, cardiac arrest.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bequest:
specific, charitable, large, last, generous, residuary, small, original, pecuniary, munificent, general, marital, special, substantial, only, largest, valuable, precious, direct, liberal, executory, similar, single, magnificent, rich, handsome, final, outright, literary, singular, considerable, noble, private, absolute, harvard, conditional, recent, contingent, greatest, divine, pious, additional, splendid, prior, valid, above, unexpected, former, sacred, chief, larger, strange, latter, fatal, monetary, dollar, priceless, modest, curious, intended, sizable, huge, unusual, ulterior, sole, fiduciary, alleged, sad, solemn, enormous, famous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bequest:
motive, motives, value, values, void, model, behavior, gift, demands, effect, saving, function, program, behaviour, property, contingent, tax, programs, donors, decision, taxes, giving, society, process, expectations, intentions, purposes, funds, money, insurance, fund, probabilities, subject, memoirs, bill, inheritance, gifts, committee, pounds, collection, lapses, controversy, pleasure, distribution, rule, patterns, plan, pleasures, utility, taxation, inequality, amounts, succession, thereof, income, decisions, absolute, invalid, specific, marketing, constraints, libraries, winthrop, estate, moment, row, rules, mode, right, freedom, message, wealth, prospect, object, increases, fall, individuals, library, inequalities, remainder, son, accounts, demand, plans, congress, berate, committees.

Consonant match to bequest:
berquist, boquist.

Words that sound like bequest:
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