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Heritage
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What's The Definition Of Heritage?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Heritage: inheritance | inheritance | inheritance Related Terms | Find terms related to Heritage: 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 See Also | accretion | acquisition | attribute | background | bequest | birthright | birthright | borough English | devise | heirloom | legacy | patrimony | practice | primogeniture | transferred possession | transferred property | upbringing Heritage In Webster's Dictionary \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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