LEGACY


Meaning of LEGACY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

great

Unquestionably it was ancient Rome's greatest legacy to the medieval world, greater probably even than its literature and its poetry.

The greatest legacy for modernism has been the construction of the notion of the artist-as-genius.

But his greatest legacy is his now largely forgotten work as an actor-manager inthe 1930s and 40s.

historical

The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.

It deals with the spiritual as well as the historical legacy of the Lakota people from 1860-1899.

Nasser was later both to draw on that historical legacy , and to be compared to figures from it.

The historical legacy of women's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice.

important

But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.

His most important legacy to meteorology was as secretary of the International Meteorological Committee from its inception in 1874 until 1900.

■ VERB

leave

A mixture of bad workmanship, bad materials and bad design has left an extraordinary legacy of decay.

Daley has left a legacy that is pure Chicago.

Mission - a wish to help others, to leave a legacy , to pass on knowledge, to serve a purpose.

Each wishes to leave behind a legacy of solid achievement.

Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy .

Bingham wants to leave a fitting legacy to his successor and all the signs point to him achieving this.

He left me a legacy of letters inquiring about jobs, and the replies.

But the strikes themselves have left the most disturbing legacy .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The house was a legacy from her aunt.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A part of the legacy , however, ceases to bear interest.

But, as might, be expected, there is some negative legacy from the past in Doreen's adult experience.

Further legislation followed, which could more reasonably be said to have united the hitherto disparate regimes of legacy and trust.

He is beginning, ever so slowly, to think about the legacy he has built for himself.

In the excavated tombs there, the legacy of Koguryo lives in the murals depicting warriors on horseback.

Our Victorian legacy means that we have no access to the vocabulary of desire.

This was an enormously significant legacy for all educators that followed.

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