| 单词 | heritage |
| 释义 | heritage (once / 743 pages) n Heritage can refer to practices or characteristics that are passed down through the years, from one generation to the next. Researching your family tree would help you gain a sense of your personal heritage. Heritage is often used to discuss a cultural aspect or tradition that has been passed down through generations. For example, one might speak of an area’s "rich musical heritage.” Heritage can also refer to a person's ethnic or cultural background. In a legal sense, heritage is property that you inherit, like a silver teapot your great aunt Sally left to you. WORD FAMILYheritage: heritages USAGE EXAMPLESPartners for Sacred Places hosted the event and created the report through a grant secured by the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The speakers at Heritage that day differed in the degree of optimism they allowed themselves. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) This finding — that people are reflexively prone to “intergroup bias” in punishment — is consistent with what many scientists believe about humans’ evolutionary heritage. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1n that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner Syn|Hypo|Hyper inheritance primogeniture right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son borough Englisha former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers accretion(law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) bequest, legacy(law) a gift of personal property by will birthright, patrimonyan inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) devise(law) a gift of real property by will heirloomsomething that has been in a family for generations transferred possession, transferred property a possession whose ownership changes or lapses 2n any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors the world's heritage of knowledge Syn|Hypo|Hyper inheritance birthright personal characteristics that are inherited at birth backgrounda person's social heritage: previous experience or training birthrighta right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth upbringingproperties acquired during a person's formative years breeding, education, trainingthe result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) nurture, raising, rearingthe properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child attribute an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity 3n practices that are handed down from the past by tradition a heritage of freedom Hyper practice knowledge of how something is usually done 4n hereditary succession to a title or an office or property Syn|Hyper inheritance acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something |
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