birthright
NounUS[bur-thrahyt]/ˈbɝˌθraɪt/2 syllables
Synonyms:
patrimony
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth“free public education is the birthright of every American child”Type of inheritance, heritage
- an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)Synonyms: patrimonyType of inheritance, heritage
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Birth′right′ (…), noun
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.
Lest there be any... profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.— Heb. xii. 16.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54