Heritage

Heritage refers to something inherited from the past. The word has several different senses, including:

• Natural heritage, an inheritance of fauna and flora, geology, landscape and landforms, and other natural resources
• Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage
  • Food heritage
  • Industrial heritage, monuments from industrial culture
  • Tradition, customs and practices inherited from ancestors
  • Virtual Heritage, an ICT work dealing with cultural heritage
• Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual; of the physical or non-physical things inherited
• Heredity, biological inheritance of physical characteristics
• Birthright, something inherited due to the place, time, or circumstances of someone's birth
• Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin

In music

Albums:

• Heritage (Eddie Henderson album), 1976
• Heritage (Earth, Wind & Fire album), 1990
• Heritage (Astrofaes album), 2002
• Heritage (Opeth album), 2011, and the title song

The name Heritage may also refer to:

• Oliver Heritage Magazine
• Heritage (film), a 1935 film directed by Charles Chauvel
• Heritage (Doctor Who), a novel in the BBC Books series
• The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, D.C.
• Heritage Day (disambiguation)
• Heritage Guitars, a boutique guitar manufacturer, separated from Gibson
• Heritage New Hampshire, a museum companion to the New Hampshire theme park Story Land
• Heritage Records (Australia), a 1960s Australian record label
• Heritage (Armenia), a pro-Western political party in Armenia
• Heritage Party (Zambia), a political party in Zambia
• Héritage, a defunct supermarket retailer based in Quebec, Canada
• Heritage, vintage light rail urban train operation
• Heritage Auctions, an auction House in Dallas

See also

• List of heritage registers
• The Heritage (disambiguation)
• World Heritage Site
• Heritage College (disambiguation)
• Heritage Christian University
• English Heritage
• Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Heritage tourism
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
• Heritage Fleet (Amtrak)
• Heritage Foods
• Heritage High School (disambiguation)