The meaning of Heritage

noun

A legacy.

Usage examples:

A bequest of over £300,000

noun

The money or property that someone, after death, gives to someone else

Usage examples:

Her will included large bequests to charity.

noun

Money or property that someone has left to a person or organization in their will (= a document stating who will have your money and property after you die)

Usage examples:

Her will included small bequests to her family, while most of her fortune went to charity.

noun

A particular right of possession or privilege a person has from birth, especially as an eldest son.

Usage examples:

Being the good brother he is, jacob offers esau some lentil soup - on one condition: esau has to fo…

verb

Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.

Usage examples:

A training programme should be devised

noun

A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone.

Usage examples:

The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the somerset estate can fairly be inte…

verb

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort

noun

The action of endowing something or someone.

Usage examples:

He tried to promote the endowment of a chair of psychiatry

noun

A gift of money that will provide an income for a college or university, a hospital, or other organization

Usage examples:

We are trying to set up an endowment to support the library.

noun

Money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of this money

Usage examples:

An endowment for sth the las vegas millionaire pledged $10 million for the project and an endowment…

noun

An extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.

Usage examples:

The grandparents then withdraw to another house on the family estate and cultivate their own land a…

noun

A large, privately owned area of land in the country, often with a large house

noun

A group of houses or factories built in a planned way

Usage examples:

Commercial/industrial/trading estate he rents a unit on an industrial estate., a housing estate, le…

noun

Any item of property, either a corporeal hereditament (land or a building) or an incorporeal hereditament (such as a rent), that can be inherited.

Usage examples:

Rates were not payable on any unoccupied hereditament

noun

A piece of property that can be left to someone after its owner has died

Usage examples:

Does the land form part of a hereditament having a net annual value exceeding £10,000?

noun

A thing that is inherited.

Usage examples:

He came into a comfortable inheritance

noun

Money, land, or possessions received from someone after the person has died

noun

The money, property, or assets that someone receives from a person who has died

Usage examples:

Spend/invest your inheritance she invested her inheritance in setting up her own financial consulta…

noun

An amount of money or property left to someone in a will.

Usage examples:

My grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy

adjective

Denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.

Usage examples:

Integration with legacy systems has been cited as a problem by over half of respondents

noun

Something that is a result of events in the past

Usage examples:

The bitter legacy of a civil war

noun

Property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.

Usage examples:

Owners refuse to part with their patrimony in the interests of agricultural development

noun

Land, property, historical objects, etc. that have belonged to a country or other area for many years

Usage examples:

Cultural/national patrimony the statues are part of our country's cultural patrimony.