heirdom

English

Etymology

heir +‎ -dom

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛəɹdəm/

Noun

heirdom (countable and uncountable, plural heirdoms)

  1. 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?

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