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Birthright Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Birthright has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth

"free public education is the birthright of every American child"

2

an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

3

personal characteristics that are inherited at birth

4

Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
inheritance
Rhyming Words
ght ight ought dight bight tight fight eight night might light pight aught hight aight right wight sight voight blight
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