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say it: HER-uh-tuhj
heritage is a noun meaning "practices that are handed down from the past by tradition". It carries 4 recorded senses.
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
“my only inheritance was my mother's blessing”
“the world's heritage of knowledge”
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
law
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heritage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.