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Heritage

Heritage Definition And Meaning
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.

Heritage Definition And Meaning

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

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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