Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
BIRTHRIGHT
birthright
(noun) personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
birthright
(noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; “free public education is the birthright of every American child”
birthright, patrimony
(noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
birthright (plural birthrights)
Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
Source: Wiktionary
Birth"right`, n.
Definition: Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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