birthright

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von birthright im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: vatandaşlık hakkı; doğumla kazanılan hak; doğuştan kazanılan ulusal hak; doğuştan gelen hak; (isim) doğuştan kazanılan hak; {i} doğuştan kazanılan hak

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von birthright im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: something owed since birth, due to inheritance; a privilege or possession into which one is born; {n} right or privelege by birth; personal characteristics that are inherited at birth; personal characteristics that are inherited at birth a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"; Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp; The special inheritance rights of the first-born son giving him claim to the bulk of the ancestral property; Bloodlines Domains Aduria; In New England, the eldest son received a double portion of the estate, it was called his birthright If you should find a person has conveyed a 1/7 interest in the father's estate, you may conclude there were six surviving children, each of whom received a 1/7 of the estate, except for the eldest son, who received a 2/7 or double portion; an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture); the rights or inheritance of the first born; Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being. Freedom is the natural birthright of every human. something such as a right, property, money etc that you believe you should have because of the family or country you belong to; a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"; {i} privilege or right to which a person is entitled by birth; heritage
sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage: To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value
a. 1832, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Code:An elector, who by his vote should contribute to the establishment of a constitution having for its effect, instead of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the greatest or supposed greatest happiness of the ruling few at the expense of the happiness of the many, would, supposing himself to become in consequence of the misrule, a sufferer to a greater amount than that of the benefit received by his vote, be an Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage.
birthrights: plural of birthright