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legacy1 nounlegacy2 adjective legacyleg‧a‧cy1 /ˈleɡəsi/ ●○○ noun (plural legacies) [countable] legacyOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French legacie ‘position of a legate’, from Latin legatus; ➔ LEGATE - The house was a legacy from her aunt.
- A part of the legacy, however, ceases to bear interest.
- But, as might, be expected, there is some negative legacy from the past in Doreen's adult experience.
- Further legislation followed, which could more reasonably be said to have united the hitherto disparate regimes of legacy and trust.
- He is beginning, ever so slowly, to think about the legacy he has built for himself.
- In the excavated tombs there, the legacy of Koguryo lives in the murals depicting warriors on horseback.
- Our Victorian legacy means that we have no access to the vocabulary of desire.
- This was an enormously significant legacy for all educators that followed.
► left a legacy The invasion left a legacy of hatred and fear. ADJECTIVE► great· Unquestionably it was ancient Rome's greatest legacy to the medieval world, greater probably even than its literature and its poetry.· The greatest legacy for modernism has been the construction of the notion of the artist-as-genius.· But his greatest legacy is his now largely forgotten work as an actor-manager inthe 1930s and 40s. ► historical· The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.· It deals with the spiritual as well as the historical legacy of the Lakota people from 1860-1899.· Nasser was later both to draw on that historical legacy, and to be compared to figures from it.· The historical legacy of women's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice. ► important· But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.· His most important legacy to meteorology was as secretary of the International Meteorological Committee from its inception in 1874 until 1900. VERB► leave· A mixture of bad workmanship, bad materials and bad design has left an extraordinary legacy of decay.· Daley has left a legacy that is pure Chicago.· Mission - a wish to help others, to leave a legacy, to pass on knowledge, to serve a purpose.· Each wishes to leave behind a legacy of solid achievement.· Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy.· Bingham wants to leave a fitting legacy to his successor and all the signs point to him achieving this.· He left me a legacy of letters inquiring about jobs, and the replies.· But the strikes themselves have left the most disturbing legacy. 1something that happens or exists as a result of things that happened at an earlier timelegacy of The invasion left a legacy of hatred and fear.legacy from a legacy from the colonial period2money or property that you receive from someone after they die SYN inheritance: She received a small legacy from her aunt.legacy1 nounlegacy2 adjective legacylegacy2 adjective [only before noun] 1a legacy system, piece of software etc is one that people continue to use, although more modern ones are available2legacy data old information that an organization has, especially information stored in an old-fashioned way |