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heritage 音标拼音: [h'ɛrətədʒ] [h'ɛrɪtɪdʒ]
n. 遗产,祖先所留之物,继承物 遗产,祖先所留之物,继承物 heritage n 1: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; " a heritage of freedom" 2: 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: { inheritance}, { heritage}] 3: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [ synonym: { inheritance}, { heritage}] 4: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [ synonym: { inheritance}, { heritage}] Heritage \ Her" it* age\, a. [ OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. h[' e] ritage, fr. h[' e] riter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See { Hereditable}.] 1. That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. [ 1913 Webster] Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God' s chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. -- Joel iii. 2. -- 1 Peter v. 3. [ 1913 Webster] 65 Moby Thesaurus words for " heritage": Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, bequeathal, bequest, birth, birthright, borough- English, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, coheirship, coparcenary, determinant, determiner, diathesis, endowment, entail, estate, eugenics, factor, gavelkind, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, heirloom, heirship, hereditability, hereditament, heredity, heritability, heritable, heritance, inborn capacity, incorporeal hereditament, inheritability, inheritance, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, matrocliny, mode of succession, patrimony, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, postremogeniture, primogeniture, recessive character, replication, reversion, succession, tradition, ultimogenitureHERITAGE. By this word is understood, among the civilians, every species of immovable which can be the subject of property, such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, & c., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toull. 472. It is something that can be inherited. Co. Litt. s. 731.
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