heirdom
English
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editheirdom (countable and uncountable, plural heirdoms)
- An inheritance or succession.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
Synonyms
edit- (inheritance): inheritance, heirship