1. Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
   "a heritage of freedom"
    
2. Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
   "the world's heritage of knowledge";
   - inheritance
    
3. (law) that which is inherited; a title, property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
   "She received a substantial heritage from her grandmother";
   - inheritance
    
4. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
   "The estate passed to him through heritage";
   - inheritance

Derived forms: heritages

Type of: acquisition, attribute, practice, transferred possession, transferred property

Encyclopedia: Heritage, Keith