English

Noun

heirdom ‎(plural heirdoms)

1. An inheritance or succession.
   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane:

     The fever’d diadem on my brow

     I claim’d and won usurpingly —

     Hath not the same fierce heirdom given

     Rome to the Caesar — this to me?

Synonyms

• (inheritance): inheritance, heirship