Definitions
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
01“Cultural inheritance”8 letters
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