Usually means: Valuable object passed through generations.
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  1. heirloom: Merriam-Webster
  2. heirloom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heirloom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heirloom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heirloom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heirloom, heirloom: Wordnik
  7. heirloom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heirloom: Wiktionary
  9. heirloom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heirloom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heirloom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Heirloom, heirloom: Dictionary.com
  13. heirloom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heirloom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heirloom (disambiguation), Heirloom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heirloom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heirloom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heirloom: Rhymezone
  19. Heirloom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heirloom: FreeDictionary.org
  21. heirloom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Heirloom: The Word Detective
  23. heirloom: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. heirloom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. heirloom: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heirloom)

▸ noun:  A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.
▸ noun:  (horticulture) An old crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation, in contrast to modern cultivars used in large-scale agriculture.

Similar:
heritage, inheritee, hand-me-down, heirdom, generational wealth, heir, ancestry, patrimony, heyre, heire, more...

Opposite:
disposable, mass-produced, generic

Types:
tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash, melons, cucumbers, carrots, beets, radishes, more...

Phrases:
heirloom seed, Heirloom plant, Heirloom tomato, Heirloom Seal of the Realm, heirloom location, more...

Adjectives:
precious, old, priceless, valuable, sacred, ancient, only, treasured, national, interesting, family

Colors:
    rust,     olive,     sage,     mustard,     burgundy, more...


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Similar:
heritage, inheritee, hand-me-down, heirdom, generational wealth, heir, ancestry, patrimony, heyre, heire, more...

Opposite:
disposable, mass-produced, generic

Types:
tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash, melons, cucumbers, carrots, beets, radishes, more...

Phrases:
heirloom seed, Heirloom plant, Heirloom tomato, Heirloom Seal of the Realm, heirloom location, family heirloom, opposite of heirloom, heirloom legacy, ancestral heirloom, more...

Adjectives:
precious, old, priceless, valuable, sacred, ancient, only, treasured, national, interesting, family

Colors:
    rust,     olive,     sage,     mustard,     burgundy, more...



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