Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 8 letters

heritage

Best crossword clue

"Cultural inheritance"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/Part of speech nounSorted aeeghirtStarts with HEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
1H2E3R4I5T6A7G8E

Definitions

  1. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

01Cultural inheritance8 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

H_______

Related words