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/hˈɛrətədʒ/ /hˈɛrɪtɪdʒ/ Listen

adjective

Heritage adj.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. "Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me."

(Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heritage" Quotes from Famous Books

... * * * * No minstrels play'd to them but[60] doubt, For gleemen there were holden out, By day and eke by night, Except a minstrel that slew a man; So till his heritage he wan,[61] And enter'd by brief of right. * * ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... probable that they were akin to the Zufiis of our own day. The snake dances of the Zufiis are a relic of the old serpent worship; and the fear and hate which the Zufiis bear the red savages of the plains may be another heritage from the kindred race which once peopled our ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... of Sayid I'm bereft, From whom the stream of bounty came, Sayid a nobler meed has left— Th' exhaustless heritage ...

— Oriental Literature - The Literature of Arabia • Anonymous

... far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come nigh thee. No weapon formed against thee, shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, ...

— The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old • George Bethune English

... must remember that we were not trained to govern ourselves, as are you of the English race, from children. Those who have been for centuries ground under heel do not make practical parliamentarians. No; your heritage is liberty—you Americans and English; and we Germans must desert our native land to partake ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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