heirloom

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a valuable object that has belonged to the same family for many years: a family heirloom HELPNOTE Use an, not a, before heirloom.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

heirloomEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary heirloomEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary heirloomEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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Is heirloom a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, heirloom is tagged as noun.

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heirloom