Heritage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

   “Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.”

2. isim A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

   “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.”

3. isim A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
4. isim Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

   “a heritage speaker; a heritage language”

5. özel isim A surname.