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Definition of Heirloom
1. Noun. (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance.
Generic synonyms: Belongings, Holding, Property
Group relationships: Heritage, Inheritance
2. Noun. Something that has been in a family for generations.
Definition of Heirloom
1. n. Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.
Definition of Heirloom
1. Noun. A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations. ¹
2. Noun. A crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heirloom
1. an inherited possession [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heirloom
Literary usage of Heirloom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"A charming letter from his father to thia fiancee, and stone posset-pot, which
is still preserved as a family heirloom. ..."
2. Camera (1907)
"... I would drinking out of a fragile glass that had been a family heirloom for
an hundred years or so. A slip of the finger, and it might be gone forever. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The magic of the mistletoe seems to be an heirloom from earliest Teutonic times.
The magic of the Celts seems to have been in the hands of the druids, who, ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The chest in which «he was buried alive in her bridal dress was an heirloom, "
richly carved by Antony of Trent, with Scripture stories from the life of ..."
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