Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: birthright
IPA transcription: [b'ɝθɹ,aɪt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: birthright
    Meaning: a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"
Usage examples
  • The birthright of contentment.
  • They had "sold their birthright," though exactly what he meant by that remark I did not gather.
  • It was, and is, of the essence of Islam that it appeals to freemen and favours that love of freedom that is the birthright of every man; but Islam brought no freedom to the Egyptians, save, indeed, the spiritual and moral one their rulers could not rob them of.
  • Tarzan's conscience was troubling him, which accounted for the fact that he compared himself to a weak, old woman, for the ape-man, reared in savagery and inured to hardships and cruelty, disliked to admit any of the gentler traits that in reality were his birthright.