Definition of birthright
: a right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth
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Examples of birthright in a Sentence
the freedom that is our birthright
believed that the house was her birthright
Recent Examples of birthright from the Web
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The military career that Ortega, an only child, once considered his birthright — several members of his family have had jobs protecting the socialist government — has been discarded in the onrush of Venezuela’s protest movement.
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In seeking to prove their New Orleanian bonafides, many respondents underscored their versions of birthrights: at least 26 people offered the name of the hospitals they were born in.
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The birthright the Allmans’ music claimed was geographical — American and particularly Southern — and with it came a willingness to move past genre lines and all their connotations of race and class.
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After years of bad PR due to the over-use of pop-ups, JavaScript is back to claim its birthright as a light, client side language which the gives power of dynamic content to sites that don’t run server-side scripts.
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1535
First Known Use of birthright
1535
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BIRTHRIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of birthright for English Language Learners
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: a right that you have because you were born into a particular position, family, place, etc., or because it is a right of all people
BIRTHRIGHT Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of birthright for Students
: a right belonging to a person because of his or her birth
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