Heritage vs. Origin — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Heritage and Origin
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Heritage
Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance
They had stolen his grandfather's heritage
Origin
The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
Heritage
A special or individual possession; an allotted portion
God's love remains your heritage
Origin
Often origins Ancestry
"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try" (James Baldwin).
Heritage
Christians, or the ancient Israelites, seen as God's chosen people.
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Origin
The fact of originating; rise or derivation
The rumor had its origin in an impulsive remark.
Heritage
Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.
Origin
(Anatomy) The point of attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during contraction.
Heritage
Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
Origin
(Mathematics) The point of intersection of coordinate axes, as in the Cartesian coordinate system.
Heritage
The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright
A heritage of affluence and social position.
Origin
The beginning of something.
Heritage
A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.
Origin
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Heritage
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
Origin
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
Heritage
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
Origin
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
Heritage
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
Origin
(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
Heritage
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
A heritage speaker; a heritage language
The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.
Origin
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Heritage
That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
Part of my heritage,Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Origin
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.
Heritage
A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
Origin
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Heritage
Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;
A heritage of freedom
Origin
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas - the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs.
Famous Greece,That source of art and cultivated thoughtWhich they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.
Heritage
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
My only inheritance was my mother's blessing
The world's heritage of knowledge
Origin
The place where something begins, where it springs into being;
The Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Communism's Russian root
Heritage
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Origin
Properties attributable to your ancestry;
He comes from good origins
Heritage
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Origin
An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Origin
The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Origin
The descendants of one individual;
His entire lineage has been warriors
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