birth right
Privilege from conception
Birthright is something you're entitled to simply by being born—typically into a particular family, nation, or class.
A firstborn son's birthright traditionally included inheritance and family leadership.
Citizenship is my birthright.
The term often carries moral weight: selling one's birthright means trading something precious for short-term gain, from the biblical story of Esau.
Usually spelled as one word: birthright.
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- legacyWhat's passed down
- family treeChart of ancestors
- firstbornFirst child born
entitlement · privilege · lineage · ancestry · claim · blessing · primogeniture · succession · bloodline · born into · heir · destiny · throne · estate · covenant · divine · natural · inalienable
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- social classupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, social class
- UK ImmigrationBritish citizenship, British passport, Home Office, immigration law, immigration officer
- ancient citizenshipcitizen, civic duty, legal status, Roman citizenship, polis
birth rightachievement
Accomplished goal or deed
merit · accomplishment · acquisition · attainment · reward
birth rightdisinheritance
Exclusion from inheritance
forfeiture · dispossession · revocation · renunciation · disownment
birth rightmeritocracy
Advancement through demonstrated ability
self-made success · qualification · credential · license · certification