Definitions for birthright
ˈbɜrθˌraɪtbirthright

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 3 votes

1. birthrightnoun

   a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth

   "free public education is the birthright of every American child"

2. birthright, patrimonynoun

   an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

3. birthrightnoun

   personal characteristics that are inherited at birth

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. birthrightnoun

   something owed since birth, due to inheritance.

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1. Birthrightnoun

   The rights and privileges to which a man is born; the right of the first born.

   Etymology: from birth and right.

   Thy blood and virtue
   Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
   Shares with thy birthright. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

   And hast been found
   By merit, more than birthright, Son of God. John Milton, Parad. Lost, b. iii. l. 308.

   I lov’d her first, I cannot quit the claim,
   But will preserve the birthright of my passion. Thomas Otway, Orph.

   While no baseness in this breast I find,
   I have not lost the birthright of my mind. John Dryden, Aurengz.

   To say, that liberty and property are the birthright of the English nation, but that if a prince invades them by illegal methods, we must upon no pretence resist, is to confound governments. Joseph Addison, Whig Examiner.

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1. Birthright

   Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others. The concept of a birthright is ancient, and is often defined in part with concepts of both patriarchy and birth order. For example, "[t]hroughout the Bible the concept of a birthright is absolutely intertwined with the firstborn. That is, the firstborn inherits the birthright and has expectations of primogeniture", which historically referred to the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative. In the seventeenth century, English activist John Lilburne used the term with respect to the rights of Englishmen "to connote all that is due to a citizen" of England, which "is claimed from English law to higher authorities". The term was similarly popularized in India by self-rule advocate Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the 1890s, when Tilak adopted the slogan coined by his associate Kaka Baptista: "Swaraj (self-rule) is my birthright and I shall have it." The term then "attained the status of a political slogan".In the context of the rights of citizenship, "[t]he term birthright signals not only that membership is acquired at birth or on grounds of birth, but also that membership is presumptively a lifelong status for the individual and continuous across generations for the citizenry as a collective". Birthright citizenship has long been a feature of English common law. Calvin's Case, was particularly important as it established that, under English common law, "a person's status was vested at birth, and based upon place of birth—a person born within the king's dominion owed allegiance to the sovereign, and in turn, was entitled to the king's protection." This same principle was accepted by the United States as being "ancient and fundamental", i.e., well-established common law, as stated by the Supreme Court in its 1898 interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in United States v. Wong Kim Ark: "the Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory, and with the single additional exception of children of members of the Indian tribes owing direct allegiance to their several tribes".The concept of birthright descending from participation in a particular culture is demonstrated in the Birthright Israel program, initiated in 1994. The program provides free trips to visit Israel to persons who have at least one parent of recognized Jewish descent, or who have converted to Judaism through a recognized Jewish movement, and who do not actively practice another religion. They must also be between the ages 18 to 32, post-high-school, have neither traveled to Israel before on a peer educational trip or study program past the age of 18 nor have lived in Israel past the age of 12.

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1. birthright

   A birthright is a right or privilege that a person is entitled to from birth or by lineage, often related to inheritance, rank, or personal, familial, or national privileges and prerogatives.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Birthrightnoun

   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 rights or inheritance of the first born

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1. Birthright

   The team finds a fugitive colony of Jaffa women, who must prey on other Jaffa to acquire symbiotes.

Matched Categories

1. • Inheritance

How to pronounce birthright?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of birthright in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of birthright in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of birthright in a Sentence

1. Louis Solomon:

   We have cultural and religious oversight. We have never shirked cultural and ritual oversight, they decided to sell the rimonim - the crown jewel, the birthright - with no regard for the fact that they are sacred ritual objects ... We don't sell our ritual objects. We never sell our ritual objects.

2. Marco Rubio:

   When it comes to Ted, he has changed his position on immigration all over the place, i mean, he used to be against birthright citizens -- or he used to be for birthright citizenship; now he says he's against it.

3. Luis Grijalva:

   I've been here for 21 years, some ways I feel as American as anybody else who was born here but just that having that birthright, that being born here, just takes away so many opportunities for Luis Grijalva but also for everyone else who's on DACA.

4. Cory Booker:

   Let's make sure, as a birthright in America, every child has a chance of creating wealth, paychecks help us get by, but wealth helps us get ahead.

5. Shaina Louis:

   Prior to Birthright AFRICA, I had a lot of pent up resentment and antagonism due to a history that I felt my people had no say in. For those of us in the diaspora, our history, according to the textbooks, starts with slavery. I was doubtful and kind of cynical about what the future held not only for me as an individual, but also for black people as a whole.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=birthright
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Birthright
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=birthright
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birthright
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=birthright