How to pronounce hereditary:
Example: "An inherited disease"
Example: "Ancestral home"
A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the house of lords.
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.
Example: "Duke is a hereditary title which was created in norman times."
Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
Example: "Hereditary rulers"
Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
Example: "Haemophilia is hereditary in his family."
Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.