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nounheirdom (countable and uncountable, plural heirdoms)
plural heirdoms
- countableuncountableAn inheritance or succession.
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?
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor PoemsSynonyms: inheritance, heirship
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nounAn inheritance or succession.
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heirdom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heirdom
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