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heritage

noun
/ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age.

  1. derived from hērēs
  2. derived from eritage,heritage
  3. inherited from heritage

Definitions

  1. An inheritance

    An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

    • Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.

  2. A tradition

    A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

    • In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm.
    • When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script.

  3. A birthright

    A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

      • a heritage speaker; a heritage language
      • The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

bioheritage, dual heritage, geoheritage, heritage interpretation, heritage language, heritage railway, heritage river, heritage speaker, heritage tomato, intangible cultural heritage, Meritage, mixed heritage, multiheritage, nonheritage, phytoheritage

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heritage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heritage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at heritage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA