Crossword-Solution: HEIRLOOM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heirloom | n. | Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “HEIRLOOM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cherished possession | 1 answer |
| One’s passed on | 1 answer |
| Valued inherited possession | 1 answer |
| Valuable item still in family | 1 answer |
| Antique object kept in the lineage | 1 answer |
| Thing handed down | 1 answer |
| Prized family possession | 1 answer |
| Pass-down possession from previous generations | 1 answer |
| Keepsake passed down through generations | 1 answer |
| Inherited family treasure | 1 answer |
| Gold pocket watch, maybe | 1 answer |
| Gift from mother e.g. | 1 answer |
| Family relic | 1 answer |
| Family keepsake | 1 answer |
| CHATTEL that follows devolution of real estate | 1 answer |
| Attic find | 2 answers |
| Family treasure | 2 answers |
| Will item | 3 answers |
| SENTIMENTAL OBJECT | 3 answers |
| ANY ATTRIBUTE OR IMMATERIAL POSSESSION THAT IS INHERITED FROM ANCESTORS | 10 answers |
| ANY POSSESSION THAT IS HIGHLY VALUED BY ITS OWNER | 11 answers |
| Legacy | 19 answers |
| dower | 23 answers |
| Heritage | 25 answers |
| Inheritance? | 27 answers |
| Keepsake | 36 answers |
| FEOFF | 42 answers |
| fief | 43 answers |
| relic | 63 answers |
| Antique | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEIRLOOM (5)
You will shortly need it; for it is not in your days as it was in mine, when a man’s office was a life-lease, and oftentimes an heirloom.
All of them were pure specimens of a breed which had been transmitted down as an heirloom in the Pyncheon family, and were said, while in their prime, to have attained almost the size of turkeys, and, on the score of delicate flesh, to be fit for a prince’s table.
The old woman was so moved by this sacrifice that she took off her locket--other than her wedding ring the only piece of jewelry she owned, and an heirloom from her great grandmother, at that--and contributed it to the welfare of the child.
The tradition of Lord Althorp's confidence in him, and of how he requited it by securing Caxton's “Golden Legend” for the library of that distinguished collector, under the very nose of his hot rival, the Duke of Marlborough, was tenderly cherished as an heirloom in the old shop.
But the intelligence (that more precious heirloom) was degenerate; the treasure of ancestral memory ran low; and it had required the potent, plebeian crossing of a muleteer or mountain contrabandista to raise, what approached hebetude in the mother, into the active oddity of the son.
Quotes with HEIRLOOM (3)
She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious. The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and kitsch. The common thread seemed to …
The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left it to Teddy, and so it had zigzagged its way down the family tree...... The clock was a good one, made by Frodsham and worth quite a bit, but Teddy knew if he gave it to Viola she would sell it or misplace it or break it and it seemed important to him that it stayed in the family. An heirloom. ('Lovely word,' Bertie said.) He liked to think that the little go…
I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!""Adrian?""What are you doing here?""Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home.""No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2025).