heritage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inheritance; property that may be inherited. countable,uncountable
    — 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. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. countable,uncountable
    — 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. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn. countable,uncountable
  4. Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — a heritage speaker; a heritage language

词形变化

heritages plural hæritage alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
bioheritage dual heritage geoheritage heritage interpretation heritage language heritage railway heritage river heritage speaker heritage tomato intangible cultural heritage Meritage mixed heritage multiheritage nonheritage phytoheritage
相关词
heir heirloom landrace

词源

From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age.
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