Associations to the word «Patrimony»

Wiktionary

PATRIMONY, noun. A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
PATRIMONY, noun. Formerly, a church estate or endowment.

Dictionary definition

PATRIMONY, noun. A church endowment.
PATRIMONY, noun. An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne