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heritage English

Meaning heritage meaning

What does heritage mean?
Definitions in simple English

heritage

Heritage is the sum total of our history. It means what we gained from the past. The English language and customs are part of the heritage of Australia.

heritage

practices that are handed down from the past by tradition a heritage of freedom (= inheritance) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors my only inheritance was my mother's blessing the world's heritage of knowledge (= inheritance) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property (= inheritance) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

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Simple sentences

We must do more to protect our cultural heritage.
We have a rich historical heritage.

Movie subtitles

Chinese heritage but hailing from San Francisco, where she runs a clothing boutique called Missy Scarlett.
Cursed be the heritage of the heir!
But Baron Frankenstein does arrive tonight to claim his heritage.
Let that, too, be a part of the Frankenstein heritage.
And now you're here to learn to fly and to fight become a part of that heritage.
Constant reminder of one's heritage.
Their literary heritage is not what they treasure above all else.
This is the terrible heritage of man. I accept that inheritance.
His heritage from me could only have been misery, poverty and the lash.
Even while they obeyed the will of Caesar the people clung proudly to their ancient heritage always remembering the promise of their prophets that one day there would be born among them a redeemer to bring them salvation and perfect freedom.
Ari's father saved my life and my heritage.
Was he of that heritage, too?
You stole our heritage and gave it to your lover.
He feels that if we ask you to live under our laws, then these laws should give you the respect and dignity that is your rightful heritage.
My heritage, Your Majesty. and yours.
But like the power in the coal you dug, locked deep in the earth for a million years. the force in you still awaited release, and the stench and grime of Shaft Number 7 was part of your heritage.
Great thing, you know, family vault like ours. Constant reminder of one's heritage.
Yours is a great heritage.
This is the terrible heritage of man.
And proud of your Chinese heritage.
Poor Dexter is the sort of man whose inheritance robbed him of his heritage.
Offered my hand and my heritage only to those who.
Who has duties to his heritage and that its assets consists of many billion.
Did you see? A heritage that removing organs from unnecessary wealthy females superfluous.
You believe in your heritage.
We abolitionists will remind them of their heritage.
You want to disavow your heritage, to die miserably far from home?
Maybe it's my New England heritage, that I'm so frugal.
They have the same heritage as ours.
We take our spiritual heritage too much for granted.
And your husband? Was he of that heritage, too?
Family stories were told, of a sordid heritage.
All the heritage of a people free to dream free to act free to mold their own destiny.
And the accident with the Cardiff Heritage Committee.
People tire of their heritage.

News and current affairs

But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost.
Issues of world cultural heritage, for example, deserve conscious, thoughtful deliberation of the facts.
But moral and ethical questions never yield fully to technical solutions; they also require an understanding of humanity's social and cultural heritage.
First, however, the Islamic world must rediscover and embrace its proud heritage.
Members of NATO share much more than an alliance; we are united by ties of blood and purpose, a heritage of liberty, and a calling to confront extremists' violence - and defeat it.
The idea of Europe as a heritage and a mission does not mean much.
With American immigration dominated by Latin Americans and Asians, the US feels its European heritage less.
It was also the birthplace of a spiritual heritage, of thinkers and artists, of a specific mode of creativity and search for meaning beyond pragmatic negotiations with daily life.
It is vital that Europe's experience, commitment, and heritage of hope be framed in a vision for the Middle East that becomes a model for its future.
It is asking how it can preserve its traditional equality and foster its unique cultural heritage.
It should reflect the European commitment to the noble heritage of the French Revolution, as reflected in, say, the French constitution, but it should reflect in equal measure the symbolism of those constitutions that include an invocatio dei.
More importantly, they were members of a tiny minority that had been educated in the written heritage of Islam.
The approach taken by Obamacare was proposed in conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and enacted in Massachusetts by Republican Governor Mitt Romney.
Such individuals should not be pivotal to preserving the natural heritage.
Africa has been described as a continent having a triple heritage, and the African Muslim, too, has a split personality.
Those strengths lie in Europe's science base, part of the cultural heritage that shapes European identity.
As the family unit, central to China's Confucian heritage, changes, so will the country's social and economic character.
Europe should therefore become a magnet for creative people from all over the world and should, based on its rich cultural heritage, raise its own.
More than one-third of Americans in 1917 could trace their heritage back to Germany and its allies.
The current dam-building plans threaten the Salween River's Grand Canyon - a UNESCO World Heritage site - and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.
But adapting this Western legacy for the contemporary Arab world, while recovering Arabs' own medieval heritage of tolerance and scientific excellence, will be difficult.
The Prague Spring was provoked by a crisis in the Communist Party, but the claim that it was merely a result of political squabbles among Party members falsifies history and rejects a significant fragment of the national heritage.

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