Noun

• S: (n) heritage (practices that are handed down from the past by tradition) "a heritage of freedom"
• S: (n) 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"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) 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)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) primogeniture (right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son)
• S: (n) borough English (a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers)
• S: (n) accretion ((law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance))
• S: (n) bequest, legacy ((law) a gift of personal property by will)
• S: (n) birthright, patrimony (an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture))
• S: (n) devise ((law) a gift of real property by will)
• S: (n) heirloom (something that has been in a family for generations)
• part meronym
• domain category
• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) inheritance, heritage (hereditary succession to a title or an office or property)