'Legacy' definitions:
Definition of 'legacy'
From: WordNet
noun
(law) a gift of personal property by will [syn: bequest, legacy]
Definition of 'Legacy'
From: GCIDE
- Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Legacies (-s[i^]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See Legate.]
- 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- He came and told his legacy. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. --Wharton.
- Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'legacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- attested copy,
- bequeathal,
- bequest,
- birthright,
- borough-English,
- by-product,
- codicil,
- coheirship,
- consequence,
- consequent,
- coparcenary,
- corollary,
- derivation,
- derivative,
- development,
- devise,
- distillate,
- effect,
- entail,
- event,
- eventuality,
- eventuation,
- fruit,
- gavelkind,
- harvest,
- heirloom,
- heirship,
- hereditament,
- heritable,
- heritage,
- heritance,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- inheritance,
- issue,
- law of succession,
- line of succession,
- logical outcome,
- mode of succession,
- offshoot,
- offspring,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- patrimony,
- postremogeniture,
- precipitate,
- primogeniture,
- probate,
- product,
- result,
- resultant,
- reversion,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequence,
- sequent,
- succession,
- testament,
- ultimogeniture,
- upshot,
- will