Meaning of HERITAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'heritij
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- [n] hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
- [n] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
- [n] practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"
- [n] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
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| | Synonyms: | | inheritance, inheritance, inheritance |
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| | See Also: | | accretion, acquisition, attribute, background, bequest, birthright, birthright, borough English, devise, heirloom, legacy, patrimony, practice, primogeniture, transferred possession, transferred property, upbringing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Her"it*age\, a. [OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage,
eritage, F. h['e]ritage, fr. h['e]riter to inherit, LL.
heriditare. See {Hereditable}.]
1. That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir;
inheritance.
Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did
bequeath to me. --Shak.
2. (Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen
people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. --Joel iii.
2. --1 Peter v. 3.
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| | Related Terms: | | allele, allelomorph, Altmann theory, bequeathal, bequest, birth, birthright, borough-English, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, coheirship, coparcenary, De Vries theory, determinant, determiner, diathesis, DNA, endowment, entail, estate, eugenics, factor, Galtonian theory, gavelkind, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, heirloom, heirship, hereditability, hereditament, heredity, heritability, heritable, heritance, inborn capacity, incorporeal hereditament, inheritability, inheritance, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, matrocliny, Mendelianism, Mendelism, mode of succession, patrimony, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, postremogeniture, primogeniture, recessive character, replication, reversion, RNA, succession, tradition, ultimogeniture, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory |
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