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
Heritage (plural Heritages)
A surname.
• 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.
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
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
