birthright
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈbɜrθraɪt/
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derecho de nacimiento
- Singing is the birthright of every child with a normal speaking voice.
- sell one's birthright
- birthright of every child
- human birthright
It has stolen our birthright, and our birthright is to be happy.
- It has stolen our birthright, and our birthright is to be happy.
- The once radical promise of birthright citizenship is beyond their reach.
- The thing I'm hearing is that bliss is your birthright.
- As much as someone may dislike the policy of birthright citizenship, it's in the US Constitution.
- Man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers.
- You, me, we know what love feels like, and that feeling is our God-given birthright.
- Chinese intend to embrace freedom speech and the human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
- I'll not sell my birthright for a handout or exchange my liberty for a dole.
- Imagine, innovate, create, share your ideas, forgive, heal your own body because that is our birthright.
- That's how you know who who's in the who's got birthright to the system and who came in later.
Examples
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Today, that birthright passes to you, Noah.
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By lifting their voices to claim their birthright, these first people engage in a form of protest.
Academic text (2016) -
I have given up my birthright for it.
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It's our birthright to rule.
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For both of us, it is a birthright we cannot escape.
Fiction book (1991) -
After all, it is your birthright.
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Freedom is the birthright of all humankind.
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I think it would be fair to say that the freedman's condition is the birthright of every American.
Academic text (2002) -
It has stolen our birthright, and our birthright is to be happy.
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Access to the natural environment ought to be a birthright of every human being.
Synonyms
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2.3
Permission given by law or moral rule to have something
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3.7
A special right or advantage for certain people
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5.1
A right under law or contract to get money
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8.2
A special right that only a person or group has
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7.1
Permission that only one person or group can use
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8.2
Property passed down in a family or left to a church
Idioms
To give up something very important for a small, quick gain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Birthright is made of two simple words: birth ('being born') and right ('a claim or thing you are allowed to have'). So a birthright is something you have from the moment you are born, like a family right or a basic right in your country.