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heritage

Definition for heritage

noun as in person's background, tradition

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The King's Foundation provides opportunities for people to learn practical heritage skills and focuses on sustainability.

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Their long-standing presence and environmental knowledge help maintain a unique form of biocultural heritage in which ecological and cultural diversity have developed side by side over many generations.

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Both ceremonies blended Booker’s Christian faith and Lewis’s Jewish heritage.

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"This is a historic milestone which acknowledges the vital place these languages hold in Scotland's culture and heritage."

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Stoppard was not fully aware of his Jewish heritage until the 1990s, when a Czech relative told him all four of his grandparents and three aunts had been killed in Nazi concentration camps.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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