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- 5 dictionary resultsheir⋅loom
[air-loom] 
–noun
| 1. | a family possession handed down from generation to generation. |
| 2. | Law. property neither personal nor real that descends to the heir of an estate as part of the real property. |
–adjective
| 3. | being an old variety that is being cultivated again: heirloom vegetables and fruits. |
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| heir·loom (âr'lōōm') n.
[Middle English heirlome : heir, heir; see heir + lome, implement; see loom2.] |
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Heirloom
Heir"loom`\, n. [Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement, tool. See Loom the frame.] Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. --Moir.
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Language Translation for : heirloom
Spanish:
reliquia; herencia,
German:
das Erbstück,
Japanese:
先祖伝来の物
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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heirloom
an item of personal property that by immemorial usage is regarded as annexed by inheritance to a family estate. The owner of such an heirloom may dispose of it during his lifetime, but he cannot bequeath it by will away from the estate. If he dies intestate (without a will), the object goes to his heir at law; otherwise it goes to whoever takes the estate under his will. Such heirlooms are now almost unknown, but the word has acquired a secondary and popular meaning of items of special, endearing value, such as furniture or pictures, handed down from one generation to the next.
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