All 3 Uses of
heritage
in
This Side of Paradise
- And what we leave here is more than this class; it's the whole heritage of youth.†
Chpt 1.4heritage = something handed down from the past
- If his father can endow him with a good physique and his mother with some common sense in his early education, that should be his heritage.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed.... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
something handed down from the past
in various senses, including:
- traditions -- as in "Americans inherit a heritage of freedom"
- cultural practices -- as in "Hospitality to strangers is part of Arabic cultural heritage."
- physical items built and/or protected from long ago -- as in "The cathedral is a World Heritage site," or "The national parks are part of our heritage as Americans."