heritage

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" [syn: {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 [syn:
       {inheritance}, {heritage}]
    4: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
       [syn: {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.
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            Part of my heritage,
            Which my dead father did bequeath to me. --Shak.
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   2. (Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen
      people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. --Joel iii.
      2. --1 Peter v. 3.
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HERITAGE. 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. 
    

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,
      ultimogeniture