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# legacy

«legacy» in Mova's school dictionary: **money or property left to someone by a person who has died** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a legacy, legacies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A legacy is money or property left to someone by a person who has died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#m1)

2) Something that stays after a person or event is gone, such as their ideas, buildings or effects: «his legacy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#m2)

3) (computing) Legacy systems are old technology still in use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history (the legacy of the Romans), news and family stories. Phrases: «leave a legacy», «a lasting legacy». It tells the reader something remains from the past.

### examples

- The Romans' legacy includes roads and bridges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x1)
- Her grandfather left her a small legacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x2)
- The coach's legacy is a winning team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x3)
- Plastic pollution is a harmful legacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x4)
- The scientist left a legacy of discoveries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x5)
- The school wants to leave a good legacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x6)
- Well, just such a cupboard stood in a parlor, and had been left to the family as a legacy by the great-grandmother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/#x7)

### note

Plural: legacies. Not the same as «legend». Formal-ish; «inheritance» is the money sense too.

### In the corpora

- ["Legacy system" means old, outdated software.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «legacy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legacy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.