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Meaning of heritage

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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