primogeniture as a noun: - 1
primogeniture
noun
1 primogeniture
Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son.
Roget 777:
possession,
seizin [Law],
seisin [Law];
ownership
etc.
780;
occupancy;
hold,
holding;
tenure,
tenancy,
feodality†,
dependency;
villenage,
villeinage†;
socage†,
chivalry,
knight service.
exclusive possession,
impropriation†,
monopoly,
retention
etc.
781;
prepossession,
preoccupancy†;
nine points of the law;
corner,
usucaption†.
future possession,
heritage,
inheritance,
heirship,
reversion,
fee,
seigniority†;
primogeniture,
ultimogeniture†.
futures contract
[right of future possession; financial instruments],
warrant,
put,
call,
option;
right of first refusal.
bird in hand,
uti possidetis [Lat.],
chose in possession.
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Roget 124:
oldness
etc.
adj.†;
age,
antiquity;
cobwebs of antiquity.
maturity;
decline,
decay;
senility
etc.
128.
seniority,
eldership,
primogeniture.
archaism
etc.
(the past)
122;
thing of the past,
relic of the past;
megatherium†;
Sanskrit.
tradition,
prescription,
custom,
immemorial usage,
common law.
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Roget 128:
age;
oldness†
etc.
adj.;
old age,
advanced age,
golden years;
senility,
senescence;
years,
anility†,
gray hairs,
climacteric,
grand climacteric,
declining years,
decrepitude,
hoary age,
caducity†,
superannuation;
second childhood,
second childishness;
dotage;
vale of years,
decline of life,
sear and yellow leaf"
[Macbeth];
threescore years and ten;
green old age,
ripe age;
longevity;
time of life.
seniority,
eldership;
elders
etc.
(veteran)
130;
firstling;
doyen,
father;
primogeniture.
[Science of old age.]
geriatrics,
nostology†.
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Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Moby thesaurus: aboriginality, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, atavism, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, cobwebs of antiquity, coheirship, coparcenary, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, entail, gavelkind, great age, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, hoary age, hoary eld, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, inveteracy, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, old age, old order, old style, oldness, patrimony, postremogeniture, primitiveness, primordialism, primordiality, reversion, senility, seniority, succession, ultimogeniture, venerableness ... show more.
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