patrimony
3
8.2
- noun
- /ˈpætrɪˌmoʊni/
- Specialized
- The museum works tirelessly to preserve the cultural patrimony of the community.
- cultural patrimony
- national patrimony
- artistic patrimony
Examples
-
Examples of items of cultural patrimony include the Zuni war gods and the Iroquois wampum belts.
Academic text (1997) -
Perhaps the most devastating loss of cultural patrimony in Eastern Africa recently is the destruction of the museums of Somalia.
Academic text (1996) -
But if I were to move, you see, I would lose my entire patrimony.
Fiction book (1993) -
No wise man would agree to relinquish that patrimony under any circumstances.
Academic text (2011) -
In fact, for the chimas, the defense of their patrimony is a fundamental part of their history.
Academic text (1998) -
To some degree, they too lived off the biblical and sacramental patrimony of the Catholic Church.
Academic text (1990) -
The international discussion about the protection and restitution of cultural patrimony has reached an unprecedented level of intensity.
Academic text (1997) -
Through them, tribes could reassert sovereign control over resources central to their cultural patrimony.
Academic text (2002) -
Such items include human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and items of cultural patrimony.
Academic text (1997) -
Many families consider their ancestral land to be a vital part of their patrimony.
Synonyms
209
3.9
All the money, property, and debts a person owns when they die
42
4.9
A right or privilege a person has from birth
5
6.1
A gift of possessions left to someone in a will
3
4.3
Money or property you receive from family when they die
2
3.7
Property or money you receive from a family member after they die
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word patrimony comes from the Latin root pater, meaning 'father', the same root you see in paternal. It originally meant a father's property and now means property or gifts passed down to a family or to an institution.