heirloom
This free Web-based service provides access to heritage collections of the nation's archives, galleries, libraries, and museums.
They promote the country's architectural legacy to attract heritage tourism.
The heritage industry has an annual turnover of 25 million pounds.
Heritage turkey meat is denser and more flavourful than regular turkey meat.
They sell seeds for many varieties of heritage fruit, flowers, and vegetables.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

History - general words
a page in/of historyidiom
Age of Exploration
age of sail
alternative history
annal
antiquarian
antiquary
epigraphist
histographer
historic
historical
historically
historicity
historiographer
history
legacy
modern
revisionist
the Agrarian Revolution
unhistorical

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heritage | American Dictionary

heritage
noun[ U ]
us/ˈher·ə·t̬ɪdʒ/
features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, which come from the past and are still important:
The organization is devoted to preserving our cultural heritage.

heritage | Business English

heritage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈherɪtɪdʒ/us
the history, traditions, practices, etc. of a particular country, society, or company that exist from the past and continue to be important:
Their marketing strategy emphasizes the company's belief in its unique engineering heritage.

Examples of heritage

heritage
This statement was really about the failure of the heritage industry to recognize local interests in the politics of (re)presentation.
Reviews 583 signified several large-scale blocs of cultures and heritages that were differentiated by their position along the spectrum of barbarity and modernity.
Perhaps there are ways of reenchanting the world without surrendering our scientific heritage?
One's own personal heritage of possibilities is what individuates one as a person.
The indigenous heritage industry reacted to the repeated local resistance by withdrawing their commitment to the development of the site.
His main charge concerns their alleged collusion with non-academic interests to effect acceptable heritage results, politically, economically, (re)presentationally.
Archaeologists involved in the local heritage industry might be better equipped to deal with the sensitivity of minority and localist ideas of heritage than outsiders.
Initially, responses to them exhibit a combination of fascination with the exotic and a markedly undemocratic appreciation of their aristocratic heritage.
She has since changed the spelling to de-emphasize her mixed ethnic heritage when she goes to auditions.
Similarly, the split might be attributed to different ethnic heritage.
Once again, it is tempting to interpret the outcome as a by-product of the historical heritage.
The country's rich intellectual heritage is dispersed among hundreds of libraries and archives across the nation.
It was solely my intention to call attention to the complex relation between tourism and heritage conservation and interpretation.
The interrelation between identity formation, heritage conservation and interpretation and tourism has been an issue of central importance in the present argument.
Again it is reflected in a change of vocabulary from cultural resource management to heritage management, or simply from conservation to heritage.
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Collocations withheritage

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These are words often used in combination with heritage.

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agricultural heritage
We should consider the agriculturalheritage as well as the industrial heritage when we think of possible grants and work to be done.
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