Legacy Meaning
/ˈlɛɡəsi/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounMoney or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
nounSomething inherited from a predecessor or the past.
Sentence Examples
The 19th-century European colonization of Africa has left a lasting legacy all over the continent.
Ronnie's music and legacy live in all of us!
They each received a legacy of $5 000.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The former president's ____ of promoting peace is still celebrated today.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The famous artist left behind a rich ____ of paintings and sculptures.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum. The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224:
"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."
— 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 06 Apr 2019:
"As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on."
— 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
"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."
— 2000, International Engineering Consortium, The Emerging Optical Network, →ISBN, page 75:
"However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy."
— 2003, Carlo Zaniolo, Peter C. Lockemann, Marc H. Scholl, Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The former president's ____ of promoting peace is still celebrated today.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The famous artist left behind a rich ____ of paintings and sculptures.