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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth;
- Example: "free public education is the birthright of every American child"

2. an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture);
[syn: birthright, patrimony]

3. personal characteristics that are inherited at birth;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Birthright \Birth"right`\, n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. [1913 Webster] Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. --Heb. xii. 16. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

birthright n 1: a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child" 2: an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) [syn: birthright, patrimony] 3: personal characteristics that are inherited at birth