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legacy
/ˈlɛɡəsi/
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What does legacy mean?
noun
- Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
- Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
- The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
- Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɛɡəsi/
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That is the large legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau, the work it did not do because it could not.
If the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy and marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband.
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“Well, nurse,” he said, “you have had a windfall of luck. You have had a legacy left you of a hundred pounds.”
We are the inheritors of an immense legacy of the results of labour and ingenuity, but we know not the names of our benefactors.
As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown.