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Birthright
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Birthright has 3 senses
- birthright(n = noun.attribute) Array - a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child" is a kind of heritage, inheritance
- birthright(n = noun.possession) patrimony - an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture); Array is a kind of heritage, inheritance
- birthright(n = noun.attribute) Array - personal characteristics that are inherited at birth; Array is a kind of heritage, inheritance
CIDE DICTIONARY
Birthright, n.
Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. [1913 Webster]
"Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Birthright, n. a right of possession or privilege one has from birth, esp. as the eldest son.
THESAURUS
Birthright
appanage, appurtenance, authority, bequeathal, bequest, borough-English, claim, coheirship, conjugal right, coparcenary, demand, divine right, droit, due, entail, faculty, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, inalienable right, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, interest, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, natural right, patrimony, perquisite, postremogeniture, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, primogeniture, privilege, proper claim, property right, reversion, right, succession, title, ultimogeniture, vested interest, vested rightROGET THESAURUS
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Dueness
N due, dueness, right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright, immunity, license, liberty, franchise, vested interest, vested right, sanction, authority, warranty, charter, warrant, constitution, tenure, bond, claimant, appellant, plaintiff, having a right to, entitled to, claiming, deserving, meriting, worthy of, privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized, ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised, prescriptive, presumptive, absolute, indefeasible, unalienable, inalienable, imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged, sacrosanct, due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved, allowable, lawful, licit, legitimate, legal, legalized, square, unexceptionable, right, equitable, due, en r gle, fit, fitting, correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly, decorous, creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet, just the thing, quite the thing, selon les r gles, duly, ex officio, de jure, by right, by divine right, jure divino, Dei gratia, in the name of, civis Romanus sum, +a chaque saint sa chandelle.
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