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handed down
| Main Entry: |
hand down
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass along |
| Synonyms: | bequeath, pass on |
| Main Entry: | inherited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hereditary |
| Synonyms: | congenital, connate, genetic, handed down, in the blood, in the genes, inborn, inbred, innate, passed down, rooted |
| Main Entry: | secondhand |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | used |
| Synonyms: | hand-me-down, handed down, not new, old, pre-owned, previously owned, unnew |
| Main Entry: | acquired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gained without special exertion |
| Synonyms: | accrued, bequeathed, endowed, given, granted, handed down, inherited, passed on, transmitted |
| Antonyms: | deprived, forfeited, lost |
| Main Entry: | time-honored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | customary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conventional, handed down, long-standing, respected, traditional |
| Main Entry: | bequeath |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give in a will |
| Synonyms: | bestow, commit, devise, endow, entrust, grant, hand down, hand on, impart, leave, leave to, legate, pass on, transmit, will |
| Antonyms: | take |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contribute, supply, transfer |
| Synonyms: | accord, administer, allow, ante up, award, bequeath, bestow, cede, come across, commit, confer, consign, convey, deed, deliver, dish out, dispense, dispose of, dole out, donate, endow, entrust, fork over, furnish, gift, grant, hand down, hand out, hand over, heap upon, lavish upon, lay upon, lease, let have, make over, parcel out, part with, pass down, pass out, permit, pony up, present, provide, relinquish, remit, sell, shell out, subsidize, throw in, tip, transmit, turn over, vouchsafe, will |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, take |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, especially after death |
| Synonyms: | allot, apportion, assign, bequeath, bequest, cede, commit, confide, consign, demise, devise, entrust, give over, hand down, leave behind, legate, refer, transmit, will |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | hold |
| Main Entry: | legendary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious but well known |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, apocryphal, created, customary, doubtful, dubious, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, figmental, handed-down, imaginary, imaginative, improbable, invented, mythical, mythological, related, romantic, storied, told, traditional, unhistoric, unhistorical, unreal, unverifiable |
| Antonyms: | factual, real, true |
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