Legacy

/ˈlɛɡəsi/ · noun

Meaning

(law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
2. Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
3. (education) The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
4. (especially computing) Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
5. (sometimes postpositive) 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.

Example Sentences

John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.

During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.

And judging by how well the progressive and youth-favoured party did, many observers suspect this latest round of legal charges are a response to Future Forward's commitment to undo the legacy of military rule and undertake democratic reforms.

As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.

Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.

They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.

However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.

Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.

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