patrimony
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈpætrɪˌmoʊni/
- Specialized
:
patrimonio
- The museum works tirelessly to preserve the cultural patrimony of the community.
- cultural patrimony
- national patrimony
- artistic patrimony
Examples
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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
327
3.9
All the money, property, and debts a person owns when they die
61
4.9
A right or privilege a person has from birth
16
3.7
Property or money you receive from a family member after they die
16
6.1
A gift of possessions left to someone in a will
2
4.3
Money or property you receive from family when 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.