different between heritage vs hereditary
heritage
English
Alternative forms
- hæritage (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French eritage, heritage, (French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin h?r?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h???t?d??/
- Hyphenation: her?i?tage
Noun
heritage (countable and uncountable, plural heritages)
- An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
- A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
- A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
- (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
Derived terms
- heritage language
- heritage railway
Related terms
- See heir
See also
- (agriculture): heirloom, landrace
Translations
heritage From the web:
- what heritage is my last name
- what heritage month is december
- what heritage am i
- what heritage month is november
- what heritage means
- what heritage are the kardashians
- what heritage is lou diamond phillips
- what heritage is lady gaga
hereditary
English
Etymology
From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h????d??t??i/
- Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry
Adjective
hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)
- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
- Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
- hereditary rulers
- Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
- Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
- (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Synonyms
- inhereditary
Antonyms
- nonhereditary
Derived terms
Related terms
- see heir
Translations
Noun
hereditary (plural hereditaries)
- A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
See also
- congenital
Anagrams
- erythraeid
hereditary From the web:
- what hereditary means
- what hereditary diseases
- does hereditary mean genetic
- what conditions are hereditary
- what is considered hereditary
- is hereditary the same as genetic
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