Heritage vs Historical - What's the difference?
heritage | historical |
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
A tradition; something that can be passed down from preceding generations.
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
As nouns the difference between heritage and historical
is that heritage is heritage, inheritance, legacy while historical is a historical romance.As an adjective historical is
pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.heritage
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- The university requires heritage''' Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-'''heritage students.
historical
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Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.