'Heritage' definitions:
Definition of 'heritage'
(from WordNet)
noun
Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"
noun
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [syn: inheritance, heritage]
noun
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn: inheritance, heritage]
noun
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [syn: inheritance, heritage]
Definition of 'Heritage'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'heritage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allele,
- allelomorph,
- Altmann theory,
- bequeathal,
- bequest,
- birth,
- birthright,
- borough-English,
- character,
- chromatid,
- chromatin,
- chromosome,
- coheirship,
- coparcenary,
- De Vries theory,
- determinant,
- determiner,
- diathesis,
- DNA,
- endowment,
- entail,
- estate,
- eugenics,
- factor,
- Galtonian theory,
- gavelkind,
- gene,
- genesiology,
- genetic code,
- genetics,
- heirloom,
- heirship,
- hereditability,
- hereditament,
- heredity,
- heritability,
- heritable,
- heritance,
- inborn capacity,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- inheritability,
- inheritance,
- law of succession,
- legacy,
- line of succession,
- matrocliny,
- Mendelianism,
- Mendelism,
- mode of succession,
- patrimony,
- patrocliny,
- pharmacogenetics,
- postremogeniture,
- primogeniture,
- recessive character,
- replication,
- reversion,
- RNA,
- succession,
- tradition,
- ultimogeniture,
- Verworn theory,
- Weismann theory,
- Weismannism,
- Wiesner theory