• noun:   practices that are handed down from the past by tradition

  Example: "A heritage of freedom"

• noun:   hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
• noun:   any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

  Example: "The world's heritage of knowledge"

• noun:   that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
• name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #27592)

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