heritages
- 1Plural of heritage.
The museum's exhibit honors the distinct heritages of the region's immigrant communities.
Marriages between families often blend two very different heritages into one household.
Note
A plural that exists because heritage works as a count noun as well as a mass noun. It counts distinct inheritances, traditions or birthrights side by side: the heritages of several communities, or two heritages blended in one family. The 'background' use stays singular because it sits before another noun, as attributive nouns usually do. The plural never appears in that position.
heritages is a form of heritage
heritage, noun: A practice or set of values handed down from earlier generations, through families or through an institution's collective memory. Full entry
- Forms
- heritageheritages plural
- Spelling
- heritage → heritages: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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