- heritage - practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"
--1 is a kind of practice
- inheritance, heritage - any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
--2 is a kind of attribute
--2 has particulars: birthright; background; birthright; upbringing- inheritance, heritage - that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
--3 is a kind of transferred property, transferred possession
--3 has parts: heirloom
--3 has particulars:primogeniture; borough English; accretion; bequest, legacy; birthright, patrimony; devise; heirloom - inheritance, heritage - hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
--4 is a kind of acquisition
- inheritance, heritage - any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"