noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Unquestionably it was ancient Rome's greatest legacy to the medieval world, greater probably even than its literature and its poetry.
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The greatest legacy for modernism has been the construction of the notion of the artist-as-genius.
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But his greatest legacy is his now largely forgotten work as an actor-manager inthe 1930s and 40s.
historical
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The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.
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It deals with the spiritual as well as the historical legacy of the Lakota people from 1860-1899.
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Nasser was later both to draw on that historical legacy , and to be compared to figures from it.
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The historical legacy of women's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice.
important
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But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.
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His most important legacy to meteorology was as secretary of the International Meteorological Committee from its inception in 1874 until 1900.
■ VERB
leave
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A mixture of bad workmanship, bad materials and bad design has left an extraordinary legacy of decay.
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Daley has left a legacy that is pure Chicago.
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Mission - a wish to help others, to leave a legacy , to pass on knowledge, to serve a purpose.
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Each wishes to leave behind a legacy of solid achievement.
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Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy .
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Bingham wants to leave a fitting legacy to his successor and all the signs point to him achieving this.
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He left me a legacy of letters inquiring about jobs, and the replies.
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But the strikes themselves have left the most disturbing legacy .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The house was a legacy from her aunt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A part of the legacy , however, ceases to bear interest.
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But, as might, be expected, there is some negative legacy from the past in Doreen's adult experience.
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Further legislation followed, which could more reasonably be said to have united the hitherto disparate regimes of legacy and trust.
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He is beginning, ever so slowly, to think about the legacy he has built for himself.
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In the excavated tombs there, the legacy of Koguryo lives in the murals depicting warriors on horseback.
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Our Victorian legacy means that we have no access to the vocabulary of desire.
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This was an enormously significant legacy for all educators that followed.