An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HERITAGE
inheritance, heritage
(noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
inheritance, heritage
(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”
heritage
(noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; “a heritage of freedom”
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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Heritage (plural Heritages)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Heritage is the 22791st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1124 individuals. Heritage is most common among White (92.17%) individuals.
Etymology
Noun
heritage (countable and uncountable, plural heritages)
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
Source: Wiktionary
Her"it*age, a. Etym: [OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See Hereditable.]
1. That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.
2. (Script.)
Definition: A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. Joel iii. 2. 1 Peter v. 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DESIRABLE
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
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