"heirdom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "heir + -dom",
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      "form": "heirdoms",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems",
          "text": "The fever’d diadem on my brow\nI claim’d and won usurpingly ——\nHath not the same fierce heirdom given\nRome to the Caesar — this to me?",
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        "An inheritance or succession."
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          "sense": "inheritance",
          "word": "inheritance"
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          "sense": "inheritance",
          "word": "heirship"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛəɹdəm/"
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  "word": "heirdom"
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          "text": "The fever’d diadem on my brow\nI claim’d and won usurpingly ——\nHath not the same fierce heirdom given\nRome to the Caesar — this to me?",
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        "An inheritance or succession."
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      "sense": "inheritance",
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  "word": "heirdom"
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