Definition of legacy Legacy
/lɛˈgʌsi/ - [legusee] - leg•a•cy
We found 12 definitions of legacy from 7 different sources.
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What does legacy mean?
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| legacy - (law) a gift of personal property by will | ||
| bequest | ||
| gift something acquired without compensation | ||
| heritage, inheritance practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- legacy (Noun)
money or property bequeathed to someone in a will. - legacy (Noun)
Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage. - legacy (Noun)
The descendant of an alumnus. - legacy (Adjective)
Of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain. - legacy (Adjective)
Left behind; old or no longer in active use.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- legacy (n.)
A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. - legacy (n.)
A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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legacy
Something inherited from a predecessor.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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legacy
leg′a-si, n. that which is left to one by will: a bequest of personal property.—ns. Leg′acy-hunt′er, one who hunts after legacies by courting those likely to leave them; Leg′atary, a legatee; Legatee′, one to whom a legacy is bequeathed.—Legacy duty, a duty levied on legacies, varying according to degree of relationship, and reaching its maximum where the legatee is not related to the testator.—Cumulative, or Substitutional, legacy, a second legacy given to the same person, either in addition to or in place of the first; Demonstrative legacy, a general legacy, but with a particular fund named from which it is to be satisfied; General legacy, a sum of money payable out of the assets generally; Residuary legatee, the person to whom the remainder of the property is left after all claims are discharged; Specific legacy, a legacy of a definite thing, as jewels, pictures, a sum of stock in the Funds, &c. [L. legatum—legāre, to leave by will.]
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In historical terms, a legacy is something that is handed down from one period of time to another period of time.
A historical legacy can be a positive thing or a negative thing. For example, the invention of the wheel (for carts, as a pottery wheel, as a grinding wheel to help turn grain into flour, and as an early water wheel) in Mesopotamia can be seen as something positive. The development of slavery was a negative legacy.
Sometimes countries or civilizations can leave a legacy. In Athens, in Ancient Greece, people voted on their leaders. They created an early form of democracy. Greece, and later, Ancient Rome voted for their leaders for many generations.
Some families pass objects and ideas down from generation to generation. These objects and ideas can also be called legacies. It may have to do with a person or many people.
Individuals can leave a historical legacy. More than 2000 years ago the Greek Mathematician, Euclid of Alexandria, collected and wrote down ideas about geometry and measurement in a text called "Elements". Students still use these ideas when they learn about mathematics.
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🔤- legacy, noun, singular of legacies.
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