Heritage

Quick meaning: Heritage is a noun meaning An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

Meaning

An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

More Meanings

1. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
2. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
3. (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

Example Sentences

a heritage speaker; a heritage language

The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.

In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm.

Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.

Word Forms

• heritages

Synonyms for heritage

Depending on context, synonyms include inheritance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inheritance, patrimonial, birthright, patrimony, inherit, heir.

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