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Definition of: legacy
(leg′ə·sē) noun plural ·cies
1. Something left by will; a bequest.
2. Hence, anything, as a characteristic, derived from an ancestor. [<OF legacie, orig. a legateship <Med. L legatia the district of a legate <L legatus. See LEGATE.]
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