1.
2.
[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