legacy

Plural

legacies

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

2. 2.Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.

   • John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
   • As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.

3. 3.The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.

   • Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Left over from the past; old and no longer current.

   • There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.
   • However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.
   • Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.

2. 2.Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.

   • Pandemic Legacy can take weeks or even months to play given different groups' play styles.
   • The social deception game Blood on the Clocktower has recently used this mechanic to significant effect to create a legacy version of Mafia.
   • Risk Legacy, in 2011, was the first game to give visibility to the idea of progressive and irreversible discovery in the board gaming hobby, 2 and it did so by applying it to the well-known game Risk.

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