Heritage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Heritage	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heritage n practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom" any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" Synonym(s): inheritance, heritage that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner Synonym(s): inheritance, heritage hereditary succession to a title or an office or property Synonym(s): inheritance, heritage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heritage \Her"it*age\, a. [OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. h[82]ritage, fr. h[82]riter 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.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. --Joel iii. 2. --1 Peter v. 3.