legacies
Meaning of legacies
- an amount of money or property left to someone in a will.
my grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy
- an applicant to a particular college or university who is regarded preferentially because a parent or other relative attended the same institution.
being a legacy increased a student's chance of being accepted to a highly selective college by up to 45 per cent
late Middle English (also denoting the function or office of a deputy, especially a papal legate): from Old French legacie, from medieval Latin legatia ‘legateship’, from legatus ‘person delegated’ (see legate).
Information about legacies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of legacies is: legacy.
- Languages in which legacies is used:
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Hyphenation of legacies
lega-cies
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- legacies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
legacies synonyms
Meaning a legacy:
Meaning a thing that is inherited:
Meaning property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance:
Meaning a donation or gift:
Meaning an income or form of property given or bequeathed to someone:
Meaning a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present:
Meaning valued things passed down from previous generations; heritage:
Meaning a valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations:
Meaning an official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict:
Meaning a particular right of possession or privilege a person has from birth, especially as an eldest son:
Meaning the action of providing or supplying something for use:
Meaning a clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone:
Meaning any item of property, either a corporeal hereditament (land or a building) or an incorporeal hereditament (such as a rent), that can be inherited:
Anagrams of legacies
Words that rhyme with legacies
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