What is the meaning of heritage?

noun

• Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition.
  • usage: "a heritage of freedom"
• Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors.
  • usage: "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
  • synonyms: inheritance
• That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner.
  • synonyms: inheritance
• Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property.
  • synonyms: inheritance