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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
   "the world's heritage of knowledge"
   - inheritance
    
3. That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
   - inheritance
    
4. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
   - inheritance

Derived forms: heritages

Type of: acquisition, attribute, practice, transferred possession, transferred property

Encyclopedia: Heritage