heirdom
noun/ˈɛəɹdəm/
Etymology From heir + -dom.
1
An inheritance or succession.
- 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?1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- Synonyms
- inheritance, heirship