heritage - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'heritage' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Heritage

[ a.]

- That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
- A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

Meaning of 'heritage' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . heritage

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- practices that are handed down from the past by tradition

Example in sentence:

a heritage of freedom

Meaning (2):
- any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

Example in sentence:

my only inheritance was my mother's blessing;
the world's heritage of knowledge

Nearby Words:

her heracleonite herakline herald heralded heraldic heraldically heralding heraldry heraldship

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Heritage
Everything transmitted from one generation to another, whether individually by heredity or socially by custom, language, religion and tradition, and

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