heritage

Noun
Synonyms: inheritance

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

  1. practices that are handed down from the past by tradition“a heritage of freedom”
  2. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors“my only inheritance was my mother's blessing”“the world's heritage of knowledge”Synonyms: inheritance
  3. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the ownerSynonyms: inheritance
  4. hereditary succession to a title or an office or propertySynonyms: inheritance
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Heritage \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. [1913 Webster]

Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.(Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. --Joel iii.

2.--1 Peter v. 3. [1913 Webster]

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