birthright Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
- free public education is the birthright of every American child
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noun an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
patrimony.
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noun personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
WordNet
Birth"right` noun
Definitions
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. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.
