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legacy

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noun

leg·​a·​cyˈle-gə-sē How to pronounce legacy (audio)
plural legacies
1
:a gift by will especially of money or other personal property:bequest
She left us alegacy of a million dollars.
2
:something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
thelegacy of the ancient philosophers
The war left alegacy of pain and suffering.
3
:a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member
Legacies, or children of alumni, are three times more likely to be accepted to Harvard than other high school graduates with the same (sometimes better) scores …—Michael Lind

legacy

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adjective

1
:of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system
transfer thelegacy data
alegacy system
2
:of, relating to, associated with, or carried over from an earlier time, technology, business, etc.
And it is about more than just TV—newspapers, magazines, radio, all the "legacy" media are feeling the earth move beneath them. Journalists look out and see thousands of empty campus TV lounges and newsprint-less recycling bins and millions of iPads and smart phones and they wonder what's coming next.—Dante Chinni
Following ISG's takeover, 100,000 Bethlehem retirees and their dependents also lost their medical coverage, and they will get only a fraction of their original pension benefits. Avoiding those expenses, known aslegacy costs, will save ISG more than $400 million a year.—Nelson D. Schwartz

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In its basic meaning, a legacy is a gift of money or other personal property that's granted by the terms of a will—often a substantial gift that needs to be properly managed. But the word is used much more broadly as well. So, for instance, much of Western civilization—law, philosophy, aesthetics— could be called the undying legacy of ancient Greece. And the rights and opportunities that women enjoy today are partly the legacy of the early suffragists and feminists.

Examples oflegacy in a Sentence

Noun She left us alegacy of a million dollars. He left his children alegacy of love and respect. The war left alegacy of pain and suffering. Her artisticlegacy lives on through her children.
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Noun
Hislegacynow lives at the intersection of performance, vulnerability, visual storytelling, and reinvention.—Jeetendr Sehdev,Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025This latest Hall of Fame induction further cements hislegacyas a performer whose contributions within the squared circle are unmatched.—Jason D. Greenblatt,MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
California colleges that violate the law are instructed to report some data points to the state, such as the admission rates forlegacyand non-legacy applicants.—Frederick Hess,Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024An analysis of Harvard admissions data, which became public through the court case, found that the acceptance rate forlegacyapplicants from 2010 to 2015 was 33.6 percent, about 5.7 times higher than the acceptance rate for non-legacy applicants.—Globe Staff,BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023See All Example Sentences forlegacy

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle Englishlegacie office of a legate, bequest, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, office of a legate, from Medieval Latinlegatia, from Latinlegatus

Adjective

from attributive use oflegacyentry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1514, in the meaning defined atsense 1

Adjective

1984, in the meaning defined atsense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use oflegacy was in 1514

Cite this Entry

“Legacy.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legacy. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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Kids Definition

legacy

noun
leg·​a·​cy
ˈleg-ə-sē
plural legacies
:something left to a person by or as if by will

Legal Definition

legacy

noun
leg·​a·​cyˈle-gə-sē How to pronounce legacy (audio)
plural legacies
:a gift of property by will
specifically:a gift of personal property by will:bequest see alsoademption comparedevise
—conjoint legacy
in the civil law of Louisiana:a legacy by a single disposition to more than one legatee or of indivisible property to more than one legatee
—demonstrative legacy\di-​ˈmän-​strə-​tiv-​\
:a legacy payable from a designated fund or asset or from the general assets of the estate to the extent the specified fund or asset fails to satisfy the legacy
—general legacy
:a legacy payable out of the general assets of the estate
—legacy under a universal title
in the civil law of Louisiana:a legacy that consists of a specified proportion (as one-half), a specified type (as movables), or a specified proportion of a specified type of the testator's property
—particular legacy
in the civil law of Louisiana:any legacy that is not a universal legacy or a legacy under a universal title

called alsolegacy under particular title

—residuary legacy
:a legacy that consists of all of the testator's estate which has not been distributed through other legacies or charges upon the estate
—specific legacy
:a legacy payable only from a specific fund or asset in the estate
—universal legacy
in the civil law of Louisiana:a legacy by which a testator gives to one or more legatees all of his or her property at the time of death
Etymology

Noun

Medieval Latinlegatio, from Latinlegare to bequeath

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