heritage means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.
heritage is pronounced /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age.
noun
- An inheritance; property that may be inherited.“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.”
- A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.“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.”
- A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
- Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.“a heritage speaker; a heritage language”