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HERITAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("heritage" is a kind of...):
acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
Example:
the world's heritage of knowledge
Synonyms:
heritage; inheritance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heritage" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heritage"):
birthright (personal characteristics that are inherited at birth)
background (a person's social heritage: previous experience or training)
birthright (a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth)
upbringing (properties acquired during a person's formative years)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
Example:
a heritage of freedom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("heritage" is a kind of...):
practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)
Sense 4
Meaning:
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Synonyms:
heritage; inheritance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("heritage" is a kind of...):
transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)
Meronyms (parts of "heritage"):
heirloom ((law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heritage"):
primogeniture (right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son)
borough English (a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers)
accretion ((law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance))
bequest; legacy ((law) a gift of personal property by will)
birthright; patrimony (an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture))
devise ((law) a gift of real property by will)
heirloom (something that has been in a family for generations)
Context examples:
Freedom to roam and run and lie down at will, had been his heritage; and here it was being infringed upon.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And you cleanse your eyes in a great brightness, and thrust your shoulders among the stars, doing what all life has done, letting the 'ape and tiger die' and wresting highest heritage from all powers that be.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is the race heritage, the sadness which has made the race sober-minded, clean-lived and fanatically moral, and which, in this latter connection, has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And even after fatigue came, his heritage of endurance braced him to endless endeavour and enabled him to drive his complaining body onward.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The spell of the cub's heritage was upon him, the fear and the respect born of the centuries of struggle and the accumulated experience of the generations.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The heritage was too compelling for a wolf that was only a cub.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was a heritage he had received directly from One Eye and the she-wolf; but to them, in turn, it had been passed down through all the generations of wolves that had gone before.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
