legacy – English noun declension

English noun forms of legacy

Noun: legacy
Singularlegacy
Plurallegacies

Sample Sentences

  • John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
  • 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:]
  • Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.

Etymology

1. From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum. Compare legatee.
2. The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy. See: Middle English Nouns 'legacie'.

Verbs referencing "legacy"

Swedish Nouns legat.